REPRESENIA'IIVE MEN
and OLD FAMILIES of
SOUTHEASTERN
MASSACHUSETTS
CONTAINING
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND
REPRESENTAl'IVE liTIZENS AND GENEALOG-
ICAL RECORDS OF MANY OF THE OLD FAMILIES
illtjstrateB '
VOLUME 11
J. H. BEERS&CO.
C H J C A G Ci . ■
1912
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INDEX
Akin Families 843, 1141
Akin, Francis T 1141
Akin, Mrs. Franklin S.... 1141
Akin, Peleg P 843
Akin, Thomas 1143
Albro Family 1614
Alden Families 1506, 1704
Alden, George N 1507
Alden, Lucas W 1704
Alger, Mrs. Abbie A 1614
Alger, Arthur M 896
Alger Families
894, 949, 1231, 1613
Alger, Frank S 949
Alger, Newton H 1613
Alger, Stillman 1231
Alger, Rev. William R... 895
Allen, Edward H 356
Allen, Ethan 1754
Allen Families
70, 350, 1380, 1678, 1754
Allen, George H. H 357
Allen, Gideon, Jr 355
Allen, Gideon H 1380
Allen. Gilbert 355
Allen. Mrs. Horatio A 355
Allen, James W 356
Allen, Joseph D 1631
Allen. Samuel 1739
Allen, Mrs. Sophia A 1631
Allen, Thomas F 1678
Allen, Walter S.. 357
Almy, Benjamin R 824
Almy, Mrs. Emily M 826
Almy Families
670, 691, 824, 1662
Almy, Noi-man L 1663
Almy, William 672
Ames Family 26
Ames, Frederick L 29
Ames, Miss Mary S 30
Ames, Hon. Oliver 27
.Ames, Hon. Oliver, Jr. . . . 28
Anthony, Benjamin H.... 48
Anthony, Daniel A 1550
Anthony, Edmund 45
Anthony, Edmund, Jr.... 46
Anthony, Mrs. Ella F 1264
Anthony Families ....45, 1550
Anthony, Mrs. Sarah 0... 46
Archer Family 108
Archer, Dr. Jason H 109
Archer, John J 109
Arnold Families.480, 1302, 1336
Arnold, Franklin 6 1302
Arnold, Moses N 482
Arnold, Wallace E 484
Arnold, William B 483
Arnold, Wilson W 1335
Ashley, Mrs. Bettie H 1322
Ashley, Charles S 151
Ashley Families 150, 1321, 1783
Ashley, George B 1783
Ashley, Henry T 1322
Ashley, Jefferson 1114
Atherton, LeBaron 923
Atwood, Alton B 611
Atwood, Benjamin S...... 216
Atwood, Charles A., M. D. 758
Atwood, Charles H 1564
Atwood, Charles N 609
Atwood Families ,
216, 609, 758, 960, 1333,
1366, 1543, 1563, 1616, 1788
Atwood, George S 1333
Atwood, Gustavus 1616
Atwood, Dr. Joseph 1366
Atwood, Josiah W 1564
Atwood, Levi 1788
Atwood, Marcus 1543
Atwood, William B 960
Averell, Edward E 1317
Averill (Averell) Family. 1317
Ayer (Ayers, Ayres)
Family 1517
Babeock Family 1521
Bacon, Ebenezer 858
Bacon Family 878
Bacon, Mrs. Luoretia M. . 858
Bailey Family 18
Baker, Charles A 1127
Baker, Charles F 295
Baker, Charles L 1127
Baker Families
295, 572, 1087, 1099, 1126, 1319
Baker, Capt. George 0.... 1087
Baker, Capt. Joshua G . . . 572
Ballou Family 455
Ballou, Walter 455
Barden Family 677
Barden, Mrs. Louise B . . . . 681
Barden, Winthrop F 681
Barker, Anson J 1524
Barker, Capt. Charles W.. 1410
Barker, Mrs. Edith F..208, 247
Barker, Edward 208
Barker, Mrs. Emily K 1411
Barker Families
207, 331, 1410, 1524, 1655
Barker, Orville A 1526
Barnett, George D 1776
Barney, Algernon H 1015
Barney Families 1014, 1063
Barney, Morgan 1064
Barrows Families 611,1275
Barrows, Fletcher L 1277
Barrows, Horatio 1275
Bartlett Families.841, 1079, 1255
Bartlett, Frederick D 841
Bartlett, Horace 1255
Bass Family 517
Bassett, Charles A 319
Bassett Families 317, 1413
Bassett, I^ester E 1415
Bassett, Rufus W 319
Bassett, Thomas B 320
Bates, Mrs. Anna W...524, 536
Bates, Mrs. Elderetta 1491
Bates, Eliphalet R 852
Bates Families
401, 536, 851, 988, 1490
Bates, Joshua 536
Bates, Orrin 1490
Bates, Mrs. Ruth T 853
Battles, David W 1769
Battles Family 1767
Battles, Joseph 1770
Baxendale, John V 1676
Baxendale, John W 1676
Baxendale, Thomas A 320
Baylies, Charles S 526
Baylies Family 524
Baylies, John B 525
Baylies, Mrs. Mary C 525
Baylies, William 525
Beal, Charles A 341
Beal(s) Families 338,905, 1179
Beal, Mrs. Florence L 340
Beal, George A 339
Beal, George C 340
Beal, Herbert A 340
Beals, Arthur L., M.D.... 1179
Beals (Beal) Familiea....
338. 905.. il79, 1614'
Beals, Isaiah A . . . w; lH4i
Beals, Joseph E. .,..}• •••■•v- . ^"^
Beals, Walter h...^^:^..,:'J^l.
Bearce, Mrs. JefferWMiS..',
INDEX
/live L,
JS.....1511,
/ H.. ......
.liam A. ......
^iiy
lUiam H
Families 954,
.^e, Frank A
iickford Family
Bickford, George E
Bickford, Mrs. Mary T. . .
Bird Family
Bishop Family
Blackinton, Amos S.......
Blackinton Family
Blackmer (Blackmore)
Family
Blackmer, Herbert A
Blackstone, Alfred V., M.D.
Blackstons Family ......
Blackstone, Hollis M......
Blake Family
Blake, James Edwin
Blanding Family
Blanding, AVilliam W.....
Bliss, Charles E
Bliss, Miss Cordelia L
Bliss Families 808,
Blossom, Aloiizo C
Blossom Family
ii.y '
■ p
■ ■ iot L
: - ; . Abbie L
'■. '■' 5 Anna H. . . ..
Borden, Mrs. Bertha V...
Borden. Mrs. Bethana B..
Borden, Miss Carrie L. . . .
Borden, Charles F
Borden, Edwin
Borden, Mrs. Ellen F.. .. .
Borden Families
8, 82, 417, 553, 1228,
Borden, Henry F., M.D. . .
Borden, Jonathan
Borden, Nathaniel B
Borden, Nathaniel B., Jr..
Borden, Philip D
Borden, Philip H
Borden, Col. Richard
Borden, Richard B
Borden, Robert R
Borden, Simeon, Sr
Borden, Simeon, Jr
Borden, Col. Tliomaa J
Bourne, Edmnnd W
Bourne I'amily
Bourne, Standish
Bowen F.imily
Bowen, .Joseph A
Boyden, Dr. Albert G. . . . .
Boyder, viithur C. ..... ,
BtrMTen Family
.Boyden, Mrs. Isabella W..
Boyden, Wallace C
Bradford, Cornelius F . . . .
1524 Bradford Families ......
1522 915, 1284, 1,305
1226 Bradford, Miss Frances M. 916
1226 Bradford, Lewis G 915
213 Bradford, Miss Mary E... 1080
213 Bradford, Mrs. Mary E... 1307
214 Bradford, William 1079
1746 Braley, Mrs. Annie E 949
1746 Braley Families... 304, 948
1513 Braley, Capt. Sierra L.... 948
635 Brayton. Mrs. Caroline E. 125
637 Brayton, David A 122
1627 Brayton, Miss Elizabeth H. 123
956 Br.ayton Family ..... 120
753 Brayton, Miss Harriet H.. 124
753 Brayton, Hezekiah A 124
75,5 Brayton, John S 123
422 Brayton, Miss Julia W... 122
1779 Brayton. William B 122
1474 Brett, Ellis 239
1472 Brett Families
239, 366, 516, 1764
1530 Brett, Henry A .368
1531 Brett, William F 367
562 Brett, Zenas F 368
560 Briggs, Abram T 999
561 Brigas Families
714 457. 510, 729, 911, 1000,
714 1246, 1354, 1581, 1596
1313 Briggs, Franklin 731
1315 Briggs, George E 1596
977 Briggs, George R... .. 1246
978 Briggs, Seth M 1354
976 Brightman. Charles 0. .... 851
1476 Brightman, Charles P 1649
1475 Brightman, Miss Eva St. C. 1648
1516 Brightman Families. . .850, 1647
1517 Brightman, Hathaway .... 1648
839 Bronson Family 397
340 Bronson, Dr. John R 397
13 Brown Families. 008, 1273, 1771
1359 Brown, Isaac A 1772
419 Brown, Marcus A 1273
13 Erownell, Alvin C 1030
1247 Brownell, Benjamin F 1481
555 Brownell, Mrs. Deborah D. 1481
14 Brownell. Mrs. Evelyn H.. 777
Brownell Families
1248 691. 082, 1030, 1177, 1471,
1228 1480, 1630
554 Browiiell, Fenner 1472
84 Brownell, Fenner C. 1472
89 Brownell, Isaac T 1178
1250 Brownell. Joseph 692
419 Brow-nell. William H 1030
P Bryant F.amilies 868, 1699
13 BrV.int. Walter C 867
1250 Buffington, Darius 1368
87 Buffinton (Buffington) Fa-
88 milies 1219, 1367, 1706
11 Buffinton, Frank 1707
1291 Buffinton, Mrs. James N.. 277
1289 Buffinton, Oliver 1707
1291 Bullard Family 1020
1244 Bullard, John" T., M.D.... 1019
1245 Bullock, Hon. William J.. 1296
J44 Bump Families 1659, 1673
, .„ Bump, James S 1674
\Zn Bump, Josiah B 1660
\^J: Burbank Family 1519
147 Burrell, David T 1668
147 Burrell Families 793, 1665
1305 Burrell. Jarvis 1666
Burt Families ..... 789, 1278
Burt, Henry P ....... 791
Burt, Samuel P. .......... 790
Burt, T. Preston.......... 1279
Bushee, Albert A. ....... 1791
Bushee, Charles H ....... . 1790
Bushee Family 1788
Byram Family ........... 517
Cady Family ........... 1050
Cady, Frank L......... . 1050
Gaboon, Mrs. Annie J.... 559
Gaboon, Elleiy C ........ . S58
Gaboon Family. .......... 558
Caldwell, Benjamin 0..... 1108
Caldwell Family. .....,.,. 1108
Canedy Family. .......... 1452
Canedy, Zebulon L. ....... . 1452
Capron, Everett S 1583
Capron Family 1582
Capron, Harford A. ..... 1583
Carleton Family 1750
Carleton, George H 1750
Carleton, Mrs. Mary W... 1751
Carpenter, Mrs. Eliza J. . 1583
Carpenter Families. . .642, 1578
Carpenter, Frank L 642
Carpenter, Mrs. Harriet D. 1581
Carpenter, Henry L 1580
Carpenter, Lyman 1581
Carpenter, Shcpard W.... )580i
Carr Family 5534
Carr, Simeon D. 1534
Gary, Charles H 1 564
Cary Families 360, 517, 3 564
Car'y, Mrs. Matilda F.... 363
Gary, William H 360
Case, Charles A 1663
Case, Charles E 1745
Case F.amilies 1663, 1745
Case, Mrs. Nellie M 1664
Caswell, Mrs. Eliza J 1640
Caswell F.amily 1639
Caswell, William H 1039
Chace, Arthur F., M.D. . . . 707
Chace, Benjamin S 707
Chace, Charles A 707
Chace (Chase) Families
132, 237, 518, S54, 1218,
1343, IGlo
Chace, Frank C 1220
Chace, Frank M ^kk
Chace, George A
Chace, George M
Chace, Rev. Obadiah..
Chace, Mrs. Sarah A. .
Chace, Walter F .,
Chace, Warren 0 708
Chace, William B. M...... 518
Chamberlain Fiimily 403
Chambeilain, Loyed E 402
Chandler, Cleaveland A... 70
Chandler Families. .68, 965, 1195
Chandler, Henry W 966
Chandler, Joseph 1196
Chase, Edward L 1343
Chase (Chace) Families...
132, 237, 518, 854, 1218,
1343, 1015
Chase, Simeon E 133
Child Family 1252
Church Families... 5.52, 740, 1254
Church, Nathaniel 552
INDEX
IX
atliaway, Sai.uuel W. . . . G14
athaway, WiilUam J. ... 1196
authaway, C/harles L. . . 289
Hauthaway, ijharles M. . . 288
Haulliaway, 'l^iank: M. ... 291
Bav'haway, (Mrs. Susan
Avffusta 290
Hawes, Edw ard E., M.D . . 600
Hawes, Mrs'. Eliza P 1394
Hawes Families
227. 'oOO, 1183, 1389, 1392
Hawes, Fr^ederick B 1391
Hawes, Ge orge H 230
H:iwes, Jonathan C 1391
Hawes, l\''-rs. Mary W 1391
Hawes, Ciliver K 230
Eawes, (Jliver S 229
Hawes, 'Svlvanus T 1392
Hawes, William C 1184
Hawes, William M 229
Hawes. William T 1184
Hawkins, Charles W 997
Hawkins, Edward L 997
Hawkins, Edwin M 997
Hawldns Family 996
Hawkins, Henry C 997
Hay-s, Mrs. Helen L 1636
Hay ward, Ernest L 885
Haj ward Families 234, SS4. 1532
Hay ward, John L 1532
Hayivard, Dr. Joseph W . . 884
Hay.vard, Walter B., M.D. 885
Heard Family 517
;iied(;e, Barnabas 1169
Hedge Family 1168
.Hedge, Mrs. Priscilla S. .. 1170
Harney Family 985
''lersom Family 1455
Hersom, Tliomas 1455
Hervey, E. Williams 912
.Eervey Family 911
Eowett, Miss Ellen E. . . . 478
He\i'ett Family 477
Hewett, Herman 478
Hewett, Joseph 477
Hewett, Justin 479
Hewett, Mrs. Mary 0 479
Hey wood. Miss Grace A... 1543
Hey wood, John J 1542
Hicks, Andrew 771
Hicks, Barney 770
Hicks, Miss Charlotte 771
Hicks Family 769
Hicks, Isaac 771
Hicks, .John Jay 771
Hicks, Miss Maria R 772
Hicks, Mrs. Sarah A 772
Hicks, William B 772
Hill Family 675
Hills Family 1495
Hills, George H 1496
Hobart, Hon. Aaron 7
Hf bart, Edward S
Hobart. Edward E 1567
Hobart Families ...5. 796. 1567
Hodge, Michael 743
'"^odges Families
846, 1051, 1319, 1584
Frederick G '
' ''onard M.
Ham B.
) Far-
inu'
Holbrook, Mrs. Susan J... 1731
Hollis, Mi-s. Esther 967
Hollis Family 967
Hollis, John H 967
Hollywood Family 1683
Hollywood, Joseph M 1683
Holman, David Emory,
M. D 298
Holman Family 296
Holman, Samuel F 298
Holmes, Albert W 1424
Holmes, Barnabas H 1518
Holmes, Charles J 280
Holmes, Charles L 281
Holmes, Edward 395
Holmes, Ezra 1680
Holmes Families
277, 392, 1424, 1518, IGSO
Holmes, Frank H 395
Holmes, Miss Helen 395
Holmes, Miss Helen R. ... 1519
Holmes, Josiah, Jr 1427
Hoames, JiUdgei Lemuel TieB: 838
"lolmes, Mrs. Mary A. . . . 281
Holmes, Paraclete W 396
Hood, Alfred H 592
Hood Family 591
Hood, William P 591
Hooper Families 285, 555
Hooper, Dr. Frederick H.. 555
Hooper, George M 286
Horton, Adin B 1237
Horton, Charles M 919
Horton, Edwin J 444
Horton, Mrs. Emily H. . . 447
Horton, Maj. Everett S. . . 442
Horton Families
441, 731, 917, 1236
Horton, Gideon M 446
Horton, James J 447
Horton, Mrs. Mary J 1237
Horton, Nathaniel B 1237
Horton, Raymond M 448
Hosmer Family 1408
Hosmer, Stephen D 1408
Hough Family 453
Hough, Garry deN 454
Hough, George A 454
Hough, Dr. George T 453
Hovey F.imily 1681
Howard, Charles 96
Howard, Cyrus 1715
Howard, Daniel S., Jr 44
Howard, Daniel S., Sr 42
Howard, Miss Edith F 540
Howard, Embert 309
Howard Families
40, 96, 309, r.36, 764. 993, 1162
1513. 1038, 1668, 1682, 1715
Howard, I'rancis E 536
Howard, George 993
Howard, Gorham B 43
Howard, Harry C 995
Howard, James E 1164
Howard, .Jeremiah B 1515
Howard, U>avitt T 1682
Howard, Lester S 1515
Howard, Mrs. Mary Cobb. 43
-'■d, Nathan C 1514
Mrs. Sylvia M. . . 1683
'arren A 43
■\v 1110
vs H 1110
Howland, Abraham H. ... 466
Howland, Miss Elizabeth K. 155
Howland Families
153, 464, 805, 1116, 1323, 1508
Howland, Miss Mary T... 467
Howland, Peleg C 154
Howland, Hon. Weston . . . 467
Hubbard, Mrs. Clara I 860
Hudner Family 1728
Hudner, Michael T. 1729
Hume, Miss E. Maude . . . 556
Humphrey Families. . 1625, 1710
Humphrey, Galen 1626
Himiphrey, George W 1711
Hunt, Dr. Charles R 522
Hunt Families 334, 521, 1059
Hunt, Reuben 1060
Hussey, Miss Emily Morgan 135
Hussey, George 135
Hussey-Morgan Family. . . 134
Ingraham Family 1784
Ingraham, Robert C...... 1785
Innesa, Thomas B. 526
Ivers, Miss Ella F 265
Ivers Family 264
Ivers, Samuel 264
Jackson, Amos M., M.D... 162
Jackson, Elisha T 1076
Jackson Families 160, 1073
Jackson, James F 1076
Jackson, John A 1074
.Jackson, John H., M. D. . . 161
Jackson, Oliver H., M. D. . 162
Jackson, Prescott H 1075
Jackson, Ralph W., M. D. . 161
Jean, Jean B 1324
Jenkins Family 400
Jenkins, George 0.- 400
Jenney Families ....1544, 1700
Jenney, Mrs. Mary A 195
Jennej', Mrs. Mary E 1545
Jenney, Perry P 1545
Jennings, Jlrs. Annie B . . . 366
.Jennings Family 364
Jennings, William H 365
Jones, 'Mrs. Abbie B 396
Jones, Augustus T 578
Jones, Bradford E 235
Jones Families 235, 578
Jones, Heni'y M 397
Keevey, Peter 1404
Keith, Adelbert F 18
Keith, Allen P 718
Keith, Bela 654
Keith, Charles 74
Keith, Charles P 74
Keith, Dennis Gary 23
Keith, Edward A 19
Keith, Edward H 429
Keith, Edward P 1575
Keith, Edwin (Brockton). 778
Keith, Edwin (Taimton).. 183
Keith, Eldon B 23
Keith, Elmer L 1423
Keith Families
14. 71, 184, 267, 426,
488, 718, 775, 783, 1145,
1352, 1420, 1465, 1575, 1585
Keith, Frank P 1464
INDEX
Kei^. , George E 20
■^^•;i' , Harold C 23
!Ui."' , Horace A 267
.li'"'';-, Howard P 1585
KtiOi, Martin L 777
f;<'!(,li, Merton S 1424
Ktil;:, Myron L 25
K<>)i', Nahuni Williams.. 1352
Kftiti , Nathan 1145
Pvn'ci., Preston B 75
tftlth, Roland M 489
Keith, Rufus P 77
XjAlh, Miss Sarah E. . . . 185
■~rM:h, Capt. Seth 382
. .-' , Simeon Elliott .... 430
;; ;: , S. Lorin 400
y.'.'- ' , Solomon 490
■■■:. ., Wallace C, M. D.. 783
.. ,111, Warren R 428
■>:,■! .h, Ziba C 779
, . Jey, Charles S 243
iV.'jley Families 241, 1411
I'.ll.-y, George W 888
i< (-:' loy, Mrs. Sarah A 244
Kf'.ipton, David B 937
KjLi;)ton Families ....936, 1026
Ee.iiDton, Mrs. Susan H... 937
j'Cem. John S 90
K;it;'irn(Kilbom-ne) Family 1619
Killv.irn, William J ' 1G20
Kin uall Family 130
King Family 1165
Sir;;-, William B 1166
t'^i'^man, Benjamin S 1043
j\ in.^man, Calvin D 408
Jsii.gman Families
•109, 913, 974, 1325, 1540, 1643
Kingman, Gardner J 1325
Kingman, Herbert L 913
Kingman, Horace 974
J-'.iiigman,i Josiah W 1326
iZingman, Mrs. Mary A. . . 410
Kiiig:man, Ruins P 1541
Kirby Families 601, 917
1v,by, Holder C, M. D.. . 603
s^iu.wles, Daniel M 196
Jinowles, Edward 0 196
Knowles Family 192
Knowles, Henry M 196
K,uowle3, Capt. John P. . . 194
Knowles, John P., Jr 195
is./!.~wles, Joseph . '. 197
Ki;owles, Joseph C 195
Ki.owles, Joseph F 198
Ivi'owles, Mrs. Mary J. . . 195
ICi/'^wles, Thomas H 194
Knowles, William H 196
Kollock, Mrs. Helen M. .. 1516
Kollock, Lemuel M 1516
Lane, Alonzo 662
Lane, Mrs. Deborah M. ... 1404
Lane, Maj. Everett 662
Lane Families 060, 1402
Lane, George F 1402
Lane, Mrs. Helen E 662
Lane, Jenkins 661
Lane, Richmond J 661
Lane, Zenas M 662
Lawrence Family 1164
Lawrence, Miss Ida E 1165
Lawrence, James W' 116:
Lawrence, Dr. N. Louise.. 162i
Lawson Family 136!
Lawson, Frederick W 1369
Lawton, Charles H 512
Lawton, Mrs. Clara P. . . . 513
Lawton Family 511
Lawton, Horace A 512
Lawton, Mrs. Marv E 512
Leach Families. . .'380, 382, 1084
Leach, Henry W 1085
Leach, James C 379
Leach, Mrs. Phebc 381
LeBaron Families 831, 1035
Leonard, Cornelius II. ... 1377
Leonard, Daniel B 590
Leonard Families
587, 1217, 1264, 1277, 1378
Leonard, Henry T 589
Leonard, Job M 1265
Leonard, Milton H,, M.D. 590
Leonard, Theodore W. . . . 1218
Lewis Families 211, 1008
Lewis, Zcnas W 1008
Lincoln, Edward 346
Lincoln, Edward E 346
Lincoln Families. . .66, 343, 1010
Lincoln, George A 1012
Lincoln, Miss Helen B. . . . 67
Lincoln, Henry C 346
Lincoln, Heniy E 1012
Lincoln, James M 348
Lincoln, Mrs. Jeauctto A.. 1013
Lincoln, Jonathan T. (de-
ceased) •"44
Lincoln, Leoutine 347
Lincoln, Lorenzo 348
Lincoln, Miss Mary E 346
Lincoln, Nathaniel R 348
Lincoln, Theodore G 67
Lincoln, Theodore I; 67
Lincoln, Gen. Tliomas .... 66
Lindscy, Crawford E 21;i
Lindsey Family 214
Lindsey, Mrs. Mary E 216
Little Family 1545
Lothrop, Edwin H 880
Lothrop Families 31, 880
Loud Family 389
Loud, Reuben ' 389
Lovell, Dr. Charles E 1076
Lovell Families
1076, 1205, 1463, 1624
Lovell, George W 1464
LovoU, Samuel C 1205
Levering, Charles L 63
Lovering Family 61
Lovering, Henry j\t 65
Lovering, Willard 62
Lovering, William C 64
Low, Emery M 438
Low Family -438
Luce, Arthur G 1687
Luce Family 1686
Luce, Capt. Hervey E 1686
Luce, Matthew 1061
Lund Family 182
Lund, Parkman M 184
Luscomb, Andrew 349
Lu!'"ii' ■. ~' s. Mary M. . . . '
Lui. ..,'1 :■ les B
Lu ' •• ■ .lilies 683,
' -■!' ier, Joseph G. .;. . .
• -.■'.ler, Samuel M. I . .
-^ „n, Arthur V., M,.D.
Lyon Family \ . .
Macomber Families .' .
1144,\l
Macomber, Miss Harriie
Macomber, Capt. John',
Macomber, John C. . . ,.
Macomber, Joseph L. .'.... ili-i\j
Macy, Edwin B 3 . , , 293
Macy Family '. . . 291
Macy, Frank H 294
Macy, Frederick '.. . 29i^
Macy, Frederick B 29?
Macy, George 1 293
Macy, James R 294
Macy, Philip E 294
Macy, Tliomas W 294
Magiathlin Family 998
Maglathlin, Capt. Henry B. 998
Magri, Countess Lavinia.. 1674
Makinson Family .'206
Makinson, John F 1206
Manchester Family 1005
Mandell, Augustus IT.. M.D. I'i36
Mandell Family 1''35
Manley, Albert 1 194
Manley Families ....1191, 1533
Manley, Milo 1193
Mann, Charles F 1)74
Mann Families 673, ')4C
Mann, Frederick C 072
Mann, Mrs. Pamelia L. . . ()74:
Manning Family 1611
Manning, Lucian W 1C13
Marang, Mrs. Clara Swift. 2,57
Marbel Family 1557
Marbel, Capt. William P.. 1557
Marshall Family 1232
Marshall, Howard T 1234
Marston, Arthur B., 3d... 1695
Marston Family 1693
Marston, Harry L i6Sl^
Marston, Zenas L ICS ,
Martin Family 74 ;
Marvin Family 39
Mavx in. Nelson H 39
Mii-on Families
405, 518, 934, 1048, 104
Mason, Francis A 104-
Mason, Frederick 40:-
Mason, Herbert N 105i'
Maxim, Charles M 177'
Maxim, Clarence W 177!
Maxim Family 1'^^'
McCrillis Family 172'
McCrillis, Mrs. Hetty T....172J
McCrillis, John S 172/
McCullough. Jolm 508
McLathlin Family 1752
MeWhirr, Mrs. Elizabeth J. 1361
McWliirr, Robert A 1360
Meaney, Mrs. Mary 1462
Meaney, Thomas J 1460
Mendell, James H 1537
Messingor, Austin 1376
H Family 637
■ Mshai 125
Uig Families .
INDEX
XI
families
126, 1004, 1171, 1386, 1419
aller, Franklin H 1172
Miller, John A 1005
Miller, Southard H 1172
Milliken, Charles W., M.D. 301
Milliken Families 302, 1481
Milliken, Mrs. Helen K. . . 197
Milliken, Joseph K 1483
Mitchell Families ....282, 287
Mitchell, Herbert 284
Mitchell, Isam 283
Moore, Charles E 617
Morey Family 541
Jlorgan, Charles W 135
Morgan Family 134
Morse, Alfred B 939
Morse, Edward N 939
Morse Families
937, 1433, 1568, 1774
Morse, Harrison 1568
Morse, John P 1773
Morse, Justin N 940
Morse, Nahum F 1433
Morton, Charles H 1364
Morton, Ephraim S 1181
Morton Families
, 358, 548, 901, 1182, 1363
Morton, Herbert A 551
Morton, James M., LL. D. 359
Morton, James M., 3d 360
Morton, Hon. Marcus .63, 551
Morton, Thomas J 550
Miinro (Munroe) Family. . 1775
Munroe, Miss Charlotte B. 1776
Munroe, Josiah 1776
• ash, Mrs. Clara J 922
ash Families 920, 1151
ash, Thomas N 921
\eill, Hon. Joseph 0 739
■eill, Mrs. Marv J. Conant 739
Tclson Families 458, 1546, 1589
■elson, Mrs. Hannah
Coomer 460
elson, John H 1589
i-elson, Mrs. Mary D. W. . 1592
Kelson, Sidney Tucker . . . 1549
Nelson, William H 459
•lewcomb Families . . . 159, 820
Miwcomb, Miss Harriot A.
67, 160
' feWcomb, Nathaniel 159
^cwoomb, Mrs. Sarah J...
822, 847
'fewcomb, Washington L. . 821
■'■fewton, Mrs. James E . . . . 984
fickerson. Capt. Alfred . . 173
.-foyes, Edward 0 1503
■■foyes FamJIv 1503
Nutter, Charles L 255
Nutter Faiiiily 253
Nutter, Isaac N 254
K utter, Richard W 255
Nye, Charles H 412
Nye, Charles H., Jr 413
Nye, David D 1261
Nye Families. 329, 412, 785
1103, 1107, 1234, 1356, 1743
Nye, James H 1234
Nye, Obed 785
Nye, Mrs. Susan C 1104
Nye, Thomas 1104
Nye, Willard 330
Nye, Willard, Jr 331
Nye, William F 1107
Nye, William L 1357
Oesting, F. William 982
Oesting, Mrs. Violetta C. 982
Osborn Family 37
Osborn, Mrs. Hannah F. . . 532
Osborn, James E 40
Osborn, James M 39
Osborn, Judge Joseph .... 37
Osborn, Weaver 38
Osborn, William J 37
Osborne Family 750
Osborne, William H. ..'. . 752
Packard, Mrs. AUie V. ... 1148
Packard, Davis S 78
Packard, DeWitt Clinton . . 081
Packard, Elmer C 513
Packard Families 78, 111, 326,
513, 520, 604, 681, 1214, 1258
1374, 1488, 1636, 1702, 1752
Packard, Frederick Ill
Packard, Fred H 604
Packard, Fred L 1216
Packard, George A 1702
Packard, Mrs. Harriet J... 1753
Packard, Josiah Q 1488
Packard, Martin 1636
Packard, Moses A 326
Packard, Nathan F 1752
Packard, Nathaniel R. . . . 520
Packard, Robert H 1374
Packard, Sidney E 1215
Packard, Stunner T 80
Packard, Warren B 606
Page (Paige) Family .... 556
Paige, Nomus, M. D 556
Paige, Dr. Onias 558
Paine, A. Elliot, M. D 905
Paine Family 903
Park Family 1758
Park, Frederick Waldo ... 1758
Parker, David L 1017
Parker Families 1016, 1271
Parker, Capt. Josiah 1467
Parker, Ward M 1016
Parker, William C 1271
Parker, William N 1466
Partridge, Miss Deborah A. 1372
Partridge Family 1371
ParUl, Mrs. Abbie F 142
Paull, Elbridge G 1690
PauU Families ..141, 1493, 1689
Paull, John 141
Pearse Family 1099
Pearse, George G 1102
Pearse, William G 1102
Pearse, William H., de-
ceased 1101
Pearse. William H 1102
Peck, Capron 1201
Peck, Clarence A 748
Peck Families 746, 1200
Peck, Frank 0 749
Peck, Herbert L 748
Peck, Jathniel A 746
Peck, Miss Lvdia D 1202
Peck, Russell A 748
Peckham, Anson C.,M. D.. 1037
Peckham Families . . . 1038, 1528
Peckham, Henry C 1527
Peirce, Mrs. Amanda E. . . 34
Peirce, Charles M., Jr. ... 34
Peirce Family 810
Peirce, Hon. James P 810
Penney Family 1725
Penney, Justin B 1725
Percival, Henrv M 936
Perkins Families
,■ 231, '312, --647, 1148,
1485, 1588, 1600, 1721, 1739
Perldns, George A 1486
Perkins, Henry 647
Perkins, James 1588
Perkins, Merritt G 233
Perkins, Oscar C 232
Perkins, Stillman S 1721
Perkins, Thomas H 1486
Perkins, William (2) 1601
Perry, Alonzo W 1160
Perry, Augustus -F 1698
Perry Families 1160, 1698
Perry, Mrs. Lucy M 464
Perry, Mrs. Susan B 1699
Philbrick, Mrs. Annie E. . . 349
Phillips Family 928
Phillips, Capt. Jacob B. . . . 800
Phillips, Lot 928
Pickens Families. .411, 641, 811
Pierce, Alfred 533
Pierce, A. Martin, M. D . . . 33
Pierce, Andrew G 35
Pierce, Anthony 910
Pierce, Mrs. Caroline L... 36
Pierce, Charles S 157
Pierce, Miss Clara 911
Pierce (Pearce, Pearse)
Families 32, 155, 533, 910, 1491
Pierce, George R 157
Pierce, James 1491
Pierce, Mrs. Lizzie J 34
Pierce, Mrs. Mary 1492
Pierce, Otis N 36
Pitts Families 718, 1355.
Pitts, Joseph S 1355
Poisson, Joseph 1260
Poole, Benjamin F 1058
Poole Families. 1057, 1136, 1449
Poole, Isaac B 1449
Poole, I. Chester 1450
Poole, Jerome B 1060
Pope, Charles E 1455
Pope Families 922, 1454
Porter Family 628
Porter, Henry S 628
Porter, John 568
Potter, Andrew H 1285
Potter, Capt. Alden T. . . . 1043
Potter Families 1043, 1284
Potter, Warren B 1286
Potter, William F 1287
Pratt, Augustus 1338
Pratt, Dr. Charles A 569
Pratt, Charles H 1372
Pratt Families.. 796, 1251,
1338, 1342, 1350, 1372, 1382
Pratt, Henry K 1251
Pratt, Henry T 1352
Pratt. Mrs. Jennie E 1251
Pratt, Joseph 1381
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INDEX
Pratt, Mrs. M. Adah 1452
Pratt, . Prescott H 1341
Presbrey Family 797
Presbrey, Mrs. Fannie S. . . SOO
Presbrey, Silas D., M. D.. . 708
Presbrey, William L 799
Proctor Family 1702
Puffer F-amily 575
Puffer, Dr. Loring W 575
Quinby Family 822
Quinby, Oliver B 822
Randall Family 1732
Randall, George H 1732
Rankin Family 1556
Rankin, Mrs. Kate J 1557
Rankin, William 1556
Rankin. William J 1557
Read, Alexander, M. D. . . 92
Read, Benjamin B 1407
Read, Mrs. Cynthia A 620
Eead(e) Families
91, 540, 619, 1407
Read, Joseph R 619
Read, Paddock R 540
Read, William A 92
Reade (Reed) Families...
49, 341, 853
Reed, Arthur B 388
Reed, Edward P 387
Reed (Reade) Families ...
49, 341, 386, 859, 1151, 1670
Reed, Mrs. Georgiana S . . . 388
Reed, Henry G 860
Reed, Mrs. Joseph S 1789
Reed, L. Alston 342
Reed, Lucius 341
Reed, Hon. Warren A 49
Remington, Clinton V. S.. 175
Remington, Mrs. Elizabeth
A. . 174
Remington Family 173
Remington, Hale 175
Remington, Joshua 281
Remington, Robert K 173
Reynard, Capt. Robert P.. . 1018
Reynard, Capt. William H. 919
Reynolds, Bion F 658
Reynolds, Charles T 656
Reynolds, Edmund D 1670
Reynolds, Mrs. Ellen K . . . 653
Reynolds, Mrs. Emily J . . . 1205
Reynolds, Miss Emma D.. 1432
Reynolds, Enos H 1202
Reynolds Families 051, 655,
75(., 1202, 1398, 1429, 1671
Reynolds, Isaac N 1398
Reynolds, Jay B 657
Reynolds, Jonas 651
Reynolds, Lowell M 657
Reynolds, Luke W 659
Reynolds, Mrs. Minnie I.. 738
Reynolds, Philip 1428
Reynolds, Mrs. Sarah S. . . 657
Rhodes Family 420
Rhodes, George H 421
Rhodes, John B 422
Rhodes, John C 422
Rhodes, Marcus M 421
Rice, Charles L 1123
Rice, Clarence E 1126
Rice Family 1121
Rice, John A 1122
Richards, Sirs. Winifred C. 1129
Richardson Familj' 541
Richardson, Heniy A 542
Richardson, Miss Linda . . 542
Roarty Family 1 308
Roarty, James A 1308
Robbins, Benjamin W. ... 1610
Robbins Fam'ily 1610
Robbins, Mrs. Frank B. . . . 922
Robertson, John T 739
Rodman Family 384
Rodman, Miss Julia W. . . 386
Rodman, Thomas R 384
Rogers, Asa 1511
•' Rogers Families 203, 430
Rogers, Frank L 1653
Rogers, Henry Huttleston . 430
Rogers, Capt. John 1652
Rotch Family 247
Rotch, Morgan 249
Rotch, William J 248
Rounseville, Alden, Jr. . . . 1640
Rounseville, Cyrus C 202
Rounseville Families. .201, 1640
Rugg, Cliarles P 1042
Rugg Family 1641
Rugg, Mrs. 'iMary P 1642
Ruggles Family 952
Ruggles, John A 052
Ruggles. Mrs. Susan R. . . 953
Russell Families.. 743, 885, 1247
Russell, George T 885
Russell, Henry T 887
Russell, Mrs. Ruble D. . . . 888
Sampson, Elnathan T. . . . 1282
Sampson Families
1034, 1282, 1661
Sampson, George R 1034
Sanford, Baalis 545
Sanford, Dr. Edward 931
Sanford, Rev. Enoch, D. D. 931
Sanford Families
185. 545, 930, 1573
Sanford, John Elliott 187
Sanford, Miss Kate 1 188
Sanford. ]\liss L. Augusta. 931
Sanford, Philip H 1653
Sanford, Samuel T 1574
Sanford, Mrs. Sarah A.... 1653
Sanford, Mrs. Susan 1575
Savery Families 1569, 1625
Sawin, Ezekiel R 1388
Sawin Family 1386
Sayer, Miss Caroline M... 1119
Sayer Family 1118
Sayer, Frederic L 1119
Sayer, William L 1119
Scates Family 1535
Scates, John 1535
Seabury, Alexander H. . . . 81
Seabury, Charles P 571
Seabury Families 80, 569
Seabury, Miss Helen H.... 571
Seabury, Humphrey W. . . 570
Seabury, Miss Mary B. . . . 571
Seabury, Mrs. Sarah W. .. 571
Sears, Chaunccy H 168
Sears Families 166, 638
Sears, Henry W 640
Severance Family 1 156
Severance, Lorenzo F 1157
Se. Mrs. Slarv 1
Sh'iw, .tlett M. .'. .
Shaw, Benjamin C. . .
Sliaw, Capt. Charles F.
Shaw, Mrs. Etta F. . .
Shaw, Eugene E
Shaw Families
343, 607, 696, 828, 865,
972, 1041, 1185, 1505, 1598
Shaw, Francis E 670
Shaw, Francis M 068
Shaw, Job L 1187
Shaw, John J., M. D 865
Shaw, Josepli 1505
Shaw, Linus H 669
Shaw, William H 1597
Sherman, Albert S 1555
Sherman, Elbridge G 1358
Sherman Families 468, 1170, 1358,
1519, 1553, 1571, 1720, 1756
Sherman, James L 1572
Sherman, Nathaniel B. . . . 1756
Sherman, Nelson 407
Sherman, Wilson 1553
Short Family 888
Short, Mace B. " 888
Short, Mrs. Nancy B 890
Shove, Charles M 119
Shove, Charles 0 .'. 118
Shove, Edward 119
Shove Family 117
Shove, Mrs. Sarah Elmen-
dorf 120
Shove. Walter Frank 120
Shurtletr, Albert T 710
Shurtleff Families 709, 959, J384
Shurtleff, Mrs. Maria Y rm
Shurtleff, Nathaniel F.
Shurtleff, Walter D., M
Simmons Family
Sinunons. John
Sisson, Arnold B
Sisson, Mrs. Hannah A.
Sladc, Abbott E
Slade, Abner
Slade, David F
Slade Families
471, 649, 708, 1085, I'.
Sladc, George W
Sladc. John L l Mi-
Slade, John P 'iof'
Slade, Jonathan 17?
Slade, l\Irs. Lois A liSO
Slade, Nathan 1'I85
Slade, William L -17^
Slade, William W 474
Small Family 77?
Small, Reuben C 77?
Smith, Dr. Andrew J 732
Smith, Bradford ['30
Smith Families 847, V!80
Smith, Irani 1791
Smith, Mrs. Timothy .U;7
Snell, David A 1633
Snell Families 1394. 1032
Snell, Varanus 1394
Snow Families ..208, 1345, 1437
Snow, George G 209
Snow, George H 21 1
Snow, Herbert E 210
Snow, Levi M 1345
Snow, Loum 1439
Snow, Robert 1440
INDEX
Xlll
Soule Faiiiil.es
■ 40, 842, 1007, 1089
Soule, Genri.e D 1000
Soule, Miv-.. Haiinnh 1090
Soule, Oalccs S 1089
Soule, Eufus A 451
Soule, Tlioinas H 453
Southwoitl., Echvavd 1539
Soutlnvoitl., Miss Ella F... 1539
Soutlittortii Families 1539, 1621
Soutliwort'i, jMaicus C... 1621
Sparc Family 373
Spare. Pr. joliii 374
Spare, Joiin V 375
Sparrow Family 1068
Sparrov, Frank M 1072
Sparrov,', Harry P 1070
Sparroiv, Jacob A 1070
Sparrow, Solomon E 1071
SparrcM', Dr. William E... 1071
Sparro.v, William E., Jr.. 1071
Spenci, Mrs. Anne F 266
Spemc, James W 267
Sjienie, John 266
Sperioe. William H 267
Sprcat Family 1418
Sprcat, Horace M 1418
Sta.y Family 1172
Stacy. William H 1172
.St.-ndish Family 1292
.Staples. Mrs. Alice M 105
Stiples Family 103
Staples, Herbert M 104
S.aples. Sylvanus N 103
Starrett, Artlinv P 1760
f-tenrns, Mrs. Caroline W.. 1093
Stetirns Family 1092
Stearns, William L 1092
Stetson Families 257, 603
Stetson, George W 260
Stetson, John M 260
Stiitson, Nahum (deceased) 258
Stetson, Nnhum 260
Stetson, Mrs. Ruth B. . . . 200
Stoddard, Mrs. Sarah M... 1388
S;robridge Family 1492
S;udley. Ezekiel 'E 903
Studlev Families 826, 902
Studley, Gideon S27
Sturdy, Albert W 500
Sturdy, Charles A 500
Sturdy, Charles H 500
■Sturdy Family 496
,'^t,urdy, Frederic E 498
Sturdy, James H 499
Sturdy, John F 497
Sturdy, William A 497
Sturtevant Family 1742
Sullivan, Mrs. Catherine E. 1005
Sullivan, John B 1604
Sumner Family 260
Swain, David G 1758
Swain Family 1758
Swan Family 1656
Swan, Henry S.. M.D 1650
Swan, Mrs. Matilda J.... 1659
Sweet, Andrew H 1376
Sweet Families 1376, 1789
Sweet, Frank R 1789
Swift, Hon. Charles Francis 1294
Swift, Miss Elizabeth P.. 1561
Swift Families
114, 199, 256, 1295, 1459, 1559
Swift, Franklyn K 200
Swift, Frederick C 1296
Swift, Humphrey Hatha\vay 115
Swift, Moses C 1561
Swift, Noble P 256
Swift, Rodolphus Nye 200
Sylvester, Charles F 908
S3'lvester Families 862, 907
Sylvester, Frederick 0 909
Sylvester, George 1 909
Sylvester, IMrs. Laura G . . 909
Sylvester, Robert 864
Sylvia, Antone L 1609
Taber, Charles S 786
Taber, Edward S 206
Taber Families
205, 474, 711, 786, 1024
Taber, Frederic 476
Taber, George H 712
Taber, Capt. Jacob 463
Taber, Jolm H 712
Taber, Mrs. Laura H 786
Taber, Miss Mary Kempton 1026
Taber, William G 1025
Talbot Family 665
Talbot, George H 665
Tannatt Family 1743
Tannatt. James C 1743
Tappan, Charles H 272
Tappan, Ephraim H 271
Tai)pan Family 270
Tappan, Mrs. Fannie M... 273
Tappan, Frank E 273
Tappan, William C 272
Taj'lor, James B 1388
Terry Families. .1253, 1635, 1699
Terry, Isaiah F 1099
Terry, Joseph C 1253
Terry, Capt. Phineas 1635
Tew Family 1006
'Tliacher Family f 68
Thaeher, John 070
Thacher, William T 971
Thayer Families ..18, 763, 767
Thomas, Mrs. Annie C 901
Thomas Families 899, 1445
Thompson, Albert G 169
Thompson Families
169,' 755, ,956
Thompson. INIrs. Marcia A. 172
Thompson. William M. ... 956
Tliomas, William A 900
Tliomson (Tliompson) Fa-
mily 1«"
Thorne, William H l/li^
Tlioniton Family 847
Thornton, Elisha. Jr S48
Thornton, John R 848
Thumb, Jlrs. General Tom 1674
Thurber Family 1347
Tlnirbcr, Zimri 1347
Tluirston, Anthony 1724
Thurston Family 1723
'Oiurston, Frank A 1725
Tilliiighast, Mrs. Elizabeth L.1445
Tillinghast Family 1443
Tillinghast, John T 1443
Tillinghast. Joseph 1446
Tillson Family 1577
Tillson, Henry H 1S78
Tillson. Mrs. LTdia C 1578
Tilton. Charles' W 1096
Tilton Family 1696
Tobey Families ..205, 305, 1220
Tobey, William H .... 1221
Toriey Family 1053
Torrey, George W 1056
Torrey, Josiah A 1054
Totman Family 828
Totman, Horace C 828
Townsend Family 1664
Townsend, Mrs. W. C 296
TrafTord, Allison W 425
Trafford, Andrew R 424
TrafTord, Bernard W...... 425
TrafTord, Charles A....... 424
Trafford Family 422
TralTord, Henry L 425
Trafiord, Orrin F 425
TrafTord, Perry D 425
Trafford, William C 424
Tribou, Charles E 1033
Tribou Family 1032
Tribou, John A 1033
Tripp, Arnold G 1521
Tripp, Azariah S 275
Tripp, David K 916
Tripp Families 274, 916, 1520
Tripp, Miss Katharine M.. 917
Tripp, Philip E 277
Tripp, Hon. Philip J 275
Tripp, Thomas A 1521
Trow Family 1708
Trow, Frederick L 1708
Trow, Mrs. Olive H. M. . . . 1710
Tucker, Abram R 1093
Tucker, Almon H .. 1137
Tucker, Charles 1222
Tucker, Edward T., il.D.. 694
Tucker, Ervin A., M.D 1138
Tucker Families
510, 092, 1002, 109,3,
1137, 1222
Tupper, Mrs. Mary Akin.. 844
Turner Family 864
Turner, l\Irs. Fannie H. . . . 795
Turner, Joseph S 794
Tuttle, Elias A 1159
Tj'ler Family 1744
Vigueron Family 375
Wade, Hon. Albert R. . . . . 702
Wade Family 702
Wade, Mrs. Susan H 704
Wadsworth Family 1433
Waitc, Benjamin H 1335
Waite Family 1334
Waite, Miss Florence L 1335
Walker Family 749
^Valker, George H 714
Walker, William E 750
^\'arner Family 574
Warner, Richard E 575
Warren Families 615, 1676
Washburn, Col. Abr.am... 881
Washburn, Mrs. Annie R.731, 733
Washburn, Azel 1754
Washburn, Charles G 596
Washburn, Clinton ....... 699
Washburn, Elliott, M. D.. 596
Washburn Families
188, 522, 593, 608, 698,
7.32. 872, 882, 1754, 1781
Washburn, Francis B 1782
XIV
Washburn, Fiederie A 872
Washburn, George A 595
Washburn, George R 1783
Washburn, Miss Harriet
M. S 1754
Washburn, Herbert T 732
Washburn, Mrs. Mary B . . 723
Washburn, Mrs. Mary J. . . 874
Washburn, Dr. Nahuin ... 698
Washburn, Nathan 190
Washburn, Thomas J 597
Waterman Family 1223
Waterman, Fred E 1224
Watkins, Miss Emma E . . . 285
Watkins Family 284
Watkins, William 284
Watson, Benjamin M 926
Watson Family 927
Watson, Tliomas R 928
Weeks, Mrs. Andrew G . . . . 207
Weeks Family 1G79
Weeks, Capt. William 1679
Weeks, William ,f., M. D. . 1680
'. . ellington Family 856
■ ellington. Dr. James L.. 856
'eston Families 460, 946
'eston, Lon 946
.'etherell Family 1269
Wethcrell, Orin "B 1270
We.xel, Mrs. Helen A 1048
Wexel, Henry 1047
Wheeler, Mrs. Ada W 1085
Wheelock Family 399
Whipple Families 249, 1338
Whipple, Col. John J 249
White, Andrew M. W.,M.D. 982
White, Charles P 372
White, Dr. Charles W 961
White, Mrs. Eliza C 963
White Families . . :
100, 370, 390, ' 961
White, Francis E 890
White, Hon. Jonathan 100
White, Mrs. Margaret T . . . 372
Whiting, Edward B 944
Whiting Family 943
Whiting, Miss Susan A. . . 944
Whitman Family 220
Whitman, William E 222
Whitman, William P 220
Whitmarsh, Ezra S 1134
Whitmarsh Families
1134, 1188, 1537
Whitmarsh, Frederic P.... 1188
Whitmarsh, Irving F 1537
Whitney, Amasa 378
Whitney, Miss Emma M. . . 378
Whitney Family 376
Wilbar, Charle.s A 1090
Wilbar (Wilbor, Wilbur)
Families 1090, 1272, 1400
Wilbor, Alfred G 1400
Wilbor (Wilbur) Families
744, 1272, 1400
Wilbor, Mrs. Louise A.... 1402
Wilbur, Daniel 1273
Wilbur ( Wilbor, Wilbar )
Families 1090, 1272, 1400
Wilbur, George E 744
Wilcox, Benjamin 1082
Wilcox Families 479, 1080
AVileo.x, Miss Susan A.... 1440
Wilco.x, Thomas 480
Wilcox, Tliomas B 1080
Wilkinson Family 262
Wilkinson, Samuel W 1259
Williams, Mrs. Adelaide N.
104, 585
Williams Families 582, 1592
Williams, George B 586
Williams, Joseph 1592
Williams, Mrs. Josephine T. 1445
Williams, Lewis 585
Williams, Mrs. Mary Hor-
ton 919
Williams, Miss Sarah B.. 587
Willis, Arthur H 964
Willis. Charles E 1737
Willis, Edward M 1736
Willis Families. .963. 1139, 1735
Willis, Capt. James M 1139
Willis, Nathan E 964
Willis, William H 1735
Williston, Charles H 1714
Williston Family 1713
Wilmarth Family 1129
Wilmarth, Williair D 1130
Wing, Charles F 1239
Wing Families 1095, 1238
Winslow, Capt. Albert 1288
Winslow, Miss Betsey 3... 1112
Winslow Families
364, 1111, 1288
Winslow, Miss Hope 1289
Winslow, Hudson 1113
Winslow, William B 1111
Winsor, Miss Ellen A 500
Winsor Family 542
Winsor, Walter P 544
Winstanley, Emanuel 1632
Winstanley Family 1632
Winstanley, James H 1632
Winstanley, Miss Lizzie B. 1632
Winter, Everett H 599
Winter Family 597
Winter, Sanford 597
Wood Families 845, 1157
Wood, George S 845
Wood, Nathan M 1157
Woodard, Horace F 623
Wordell, Mrs. Elizabeth D. St92
Wordell Families
1152, 1468, 1653
Wordell, Marcus M
Wordell, Rodney D
Wordell, Rufus E . .
Wright, Augustus I
Wright, Barzillai E
Wright, Edmund .
Wright, Ellery C. .
Wright, El win T. . .
Wright Families. . ..
Wright, Rev. Horac
Wright, Mrs. Jane
Wright, Mrs. Pamelia sx. . y&
Wright, Theodore F 94
Young, John M 1593
Zuill Family 1608
Zuill, Robert W 1608
Genealogy — Biography
AALIS SANFORD. Various
members of the Sanford family
in Massachusetts have been
prominent in their day as cler-
gymen, educators and mer-
chants, but none lived a nobler
life or held a warmer place in
the hearts of his fellow men than
Baalis Sanford, of Brockton, of whom this
artic'e is especially to treat. Not only was
he the oldest active business man of the city
\rith regard to age, but as well in point of serv-
ice, and during his long and continued career
as a business man he was the embodiment of all
that is straightforward, upright and honorable,
and he could feel an especial pride in the fact,
in the evening of his well spent life, that he had
been an honor to the name he bore. This
"grand old man," for such he was acknowledged
to be by hosts of his admirers, was faithful in
small things, and therefore great in large things.
Baalis Sanford was born Oct. 4, 183.3, in East
Bridgewater, Mass., son of the late Rev. Baalis
and Abby (Burt) Sanford, a member of a time-
honored family, a history of which, together
with the record of the life achievements of this
highly respected citizen of Brocldon, follows,
the generations being given in chronological
order.
(I) John Sanford, the first settler by that
name in New England, reached Boston in 1631,
and his name stands one hundred and eighth on
the list of church membership. He was sworn
a freeman April 3, 1633, and the same year
made cannoneer of the fort. Gov. Thomas
Hutchinson mentioned him among the distin-
guished citizens [Hirt., Vol. I, p. 73]. There
is a record of his baptism at Alford, in Lincoln-
shire, England, Jan. 15, 1618. He had an an-
cestor in the battle of Hastings, A. D. 1066,
when William of Normandy conquered England,
35
and distributed the land among his faithful
officers. This ancestor must have been an
officer, as his name appears on the battle roll,
and as a reward for his services he received the
lordship of Sanford. This was his title, and he
relinquished his own name and received that of
Sanford. In the year 1637 John Sanford, at
Boston, was disarmed, that is, deprived of his
civil privileges, because of his support of John
Wheelwright and Mrs. Anne Hutchinson in
their controversy with the Colonial authorities.
In December he left Boston for Aquidneck,
now the island of Rhode Island, with William
Coddington, Edward Hutchinson and sixteen
others, having made, as the records show, an
honest purchase of the island. He was chosen
constable for the year 1640, and lieutenant
Jan. 13, 1644. The three settlements were
united by a common charter in 1647, and on
May 21st he was chosen assistant governor, and
acted as coroner. He was reelected general
assistant May 23, 1649 ; chosen general treas-
urer of the Colony May 23, 1655; general re-
corder and treasurer. May 20, 1656; and
"clarke" of the General Assembly, Roger Wil-
liams at the same time having been chosen
moderator. He was reelected "clarke" in 1657-
58. He was later deputy for Portsmouth in
the General Assembly at Newport; and Oct.
31, 1677, one of the committee to lay out East
Greenwich. He was married (first) about the
time he went to Boston to Elizabeth Webb, sis-
ter of Henry Webb. Their children were : John,
baptized June 34, 1632 ; Samuel, baptized June
32, 1634; and Eliphalet, baptized in December,
1637. He married (second) Bridget, daughter
of the celebrated Anne Hutchinson.
(II) John Sanford, son of John and Eliza-
beth (Webb), was baptized June 24, 1633. He
was admitted a freeman at the General Assem-
bly held at Newport May 17, 1653, at the age
64 a
of twenty-one. He was a man of learning and
filled high office in the Colony. He married,
April 8, 1654, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of
Henry Sparhurst, of Bermuda. She died Dec.
6, 1660. This marriage was blessed with chil-
dren as follows : Elizabeth, born July 11, 1655 ;
Mary, Aug. 18, 1656; Susanna, July 31, 1658;
and Rebecca, June 23, 1660. John Sanford
married (second) April 11, 1663, Mary, daugh-
ter of Rev. Samuel Gorton, of Warwick, and
widow of Peter Green. To this union were
born: Mary, March 3, 1664; Eliphalet, Feb.
20, 1666; John, June 18, 1672; and Samuel,
Oct 5, 1677.
(III) John Sanford, son of John and third
of the name, was born June 18, 1672. He lo-
cated in Taunton, tliat is Berkley, about 1713,
on July 1st of which year he married Abigail
Pitts, born 1689, daughter of Samuel Pitts, of
Taunton, granddaughter of Peter Pitts, great-
granddaughter of Peter Pitts and Edward Bab-
bitt, of Taunton, and great-granddaughter of
Miles Tarne, of Boston. She received from her
father a tract of land described in Liber 4,
page 150. Her brothers were: Peter, Eben-
ezer and Samuel. Jolm Sanford was a large
landowner and is described in one of the records
as a mason by trade. To him and his wife
Abigail was born, among others, a son George.
(IV) Lieut. George Sanford, son of John
and Abigail (Pitts), born in 1724, lived to the
good old age of ninety-six years. He was an
officer in the French war, serving under Gen-
eral Wolfe at the capture of Quebec. He mar-
ried Mary (or Mercy) Phillips (1727-1793).
(V) Capt. Joseph Sanford, of Berkley,
Mass., son of Lieut. George, was a patriot of the
Revolution, serving in 1776 and 1777 in dif-
ferent organizations and enlisting in 1778 in
the Continental army for a period of nine
months "from the time of their arrival in Fish-
kill," in Capt. Ebenezer Paul's (2d) company.
Col. Edward Pope's (2d Bristol County) regi-
ment ; age seventeen years ; stature, five feet, ten
inches ; complexion, dark ; hair, black ; residence
Berkley. He died in 1634. He was a mason by
trade and also engaged in farming, and now
within the precincts of Fort Warren, in Boston
harbor (where he was stationed for a time dur-
ing the war) are a well and a chimney which
show the quality of the work he turned out.
in 1785 he married Eleanor Macomber, 1763-
1845, of the seventh generation from Thomas
■Rogers, of the "Mayflower." Four of their
sons were graduated from Brown University,
all of whom became Congregational clergymen.
These were: James, John, Enoch and Baalis.
The third son, Alpheus, died in Taunton, June
1, 1872, aged seventy-eight years, i,c''fii months,
twelve days.
(VI) Rev. Baalis Sanford, son cf Capt. Jos-
eph, was born July 6, 1801, in BiTkley, .Mass.,
and after acquiring his early ed;iiation in the
district schools entered Brown Liiivcrsity, at
Providence, R. I., from which ht; :Taduated in
1823. On Oct. 4, 1827, he was <:-:a ■ined pastor
of the Union Trinitarian Society ;Yi llast Bridge-
water, continuing there until li!4;i, when he
was installed pastor of the Triiiiln-iaii Con-
gregational Society 'of East Bridg':,' ^m. i', hav-
ing been at the close of the latte p - •"-ite in
the ministry in that town for a pe' (" '.t thirty-
three years. He had lived in t' ■ -<■ .- i for
fifty-three years, and died there J :' 1880
He was a man of great decision .. (cter
and true to his convictions. On th 'J 'iioral
questions of the day he was in ad ■■ -: ;■;' the
times, and on the temperance que-iivn) i.'ik a
strong position, while on the subjc 1 "f -.i i?ery
he gave utterance to ideas that W' "jM.'ste-
ful at the time, but which were ev mI,''! ■ re-
spected. His discourses, thougl ■: illy
thought out and of great worth, wer i^ ■■••, t.nd
practical, and in them he endeavc ' set
forth the gospel of divine love an >■• '.'tn.
He was naturally kind-hearted and j . ■ : !, i.ut
to the evil-doer or to the careless id,
indeed, be stern. He was a member of •■•A
committee for a longer period than ,' jiie
else in the town, and held the office w. ' h-
man of that board longer than any otl r,- m-u-
ber, having been identified with thiv .lo.rd
almost continuously from 1829 to 1877, \i: ' h?
reports which emanated from his pen v-.- -9
plete with good sense and useful sugj. ;. ■■
His memory will long be cherished i.
sterling qualities. On March 31, 183
Mr. Sanford was married to Abby Burt, ■;::-.>l.
ter of Dean and Polly (Crane) Burt, of ■;•;■■
ley, Mass. Mrs. Sanford, who was a d ^^d
wife and mother, survived her husband, > ■, , ;
in East Bridgewater in 1885. Nine ch:-' ■•'-!'
were born to Rev. Mr. Sanford and wi:"; i;
follows: Irene Abby, who died unmai ' '^' :
Baalis, mentioned below; William A] den, «.•
was formerly engaged in the dry goods husij..;:. ^
in Brockton, but is now living in Westb. '.• .
Mass. ; Henry Dean, a bookkeeper, who db.:'
in Brockton ; Austin, a graduate of DartmouL-
College, and for a number of years profeivr^r
of English in the Albany (N. Y.) high sch'-'il,
where he died unmarried Dec. 28, 19i' ■;
Eudora, who was engaged in teaching foi a
number of years, and died in Boston, unmi ■
ried, April 25, 1908; Eugene, a bookkeep
in Dorchester; Charles Homer, who conducti
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547
the home farm in East Bridgewater, and died
unmarried ; and Abbott, a graduate of Amherst
College and a physician by profession, who died
in Everett, Massachusetts.
(VII) Baalis Sanford, eldest son of the Rev.
Baalis and Abby (Burt) Sanford, received his
primary education in the district schools of his
native town, and then attended the Bridge-
water and East Bridgewater Academies. After
leaving school he remained at home until April,
1851, when he located in North Bridgewater,
becoming bookkeeper and cashier in the dry
goods house of Robinson & Barry. He con-
tinued in that capacity until Feb. 1, 1858, when
he was admitted to the firm of H. W. Robin-
son & Co., successors of Robinson & Barry, and
of this well-known house he was a member until
his death, and for many years the senior mem-
ber. In 1903 the business was incorporated as
the H. W. Robinson Company, of which Mr.
Sanford was made president, in which capacity
he afterward remained, taking an active part
in the management. Although this establish-
ment has the distinction of being the oldest
established dry goods and department store in
Brockton, dating back to 1844, at the same
time it stands among the foremost and most
modern equipped of its kind in southeastern
Massachusetts. The store covers a floor space
of 22,000 square feet, and is stocked to repletion
with dry goods and fancy goods of every
description, in fact, with all that goes to make
a great metropolitan department store.
Systematic and moderate prices prevail, and
although so near the city of Boston all com-
petition is met in every particular, and this has
gained for the company a large and increasing
trade.
After locating in North Bridgewater, now
Brockton, Mr. Sanford was always prominently
identified with its various social, fraternal and
financial interests. In political faith he was a
stanch supporter of the principles of the Repub-
lican party, and was active and influential in
the councils of the same, as well as in the public
affairs of the city. In 1877 he was a member
of the General Court of the Commonwealth,
serving on the committee on Mercantile Affairs.
He was a valuable member of the school com-
mittee of Brockton for a period of ten years,
from 1875 to 1885, inclusive, serving as secre-
tary the entire period, his early associations and
educational training well qualifying him to fill
this position. In January, 1882, he was elected
city auditor, being the first auditor under the
new charter when Brockton became a city, and
he continued in this capacity for a period of
fourteen years, when he resigned on account of
his many other business affairs. On Dec. 27,
1881, he received his first commission as a jus-
tice of the peace from Gov. John D. Long, and
had served in that capacity continuously to the
time of his death. A petition was circulated
in 1895 by prominent business men, ex-mayors
and others, asking him to become a candidate
for mayor. The signatures showed men of
every political party, and after deep considera-
tion Mr. Sanford accepted. The campaign was
contested with great vigor, and he was defeated.
As a member of the sinking fund commissioners
he was selected because of his financial ability
as well as of his interest in Brockton.
Upon the chartering of the Security Co-
operative Bank, in 1877, Mr. Sanford was
elected the first president of same, and he served
in that office two years, after which time he
was one of the auditors. He was treasurer of
the Brockton Gas Light Company from 1886
to 1888, resigning this position when the com-
pany became a corporation. In April, 1892,
he was elected president of the Brockton Sav-
ings Bank, and was also chairman of the board
of investment of the bank, holding both positions
at the time of his death. He was actively
identified with the Brockton Agricultural So-
ciety from its incorporation in. 1874, and in
1886 became its secretary, filling that position
with efficiency until his death, and for thirteen
years was superintendent of the exhibition hall
at the fair grounds. He was a charter member
of the Commercial Club of Brockton, organized
in January, 1883, and composed of the leading
citizens; was its first secretary, filling that
office a number of years, and for five years was
the treasurer. For several years Mr. Sanford
was treasurer of the Lugonia Fruit Growing
and Packing Company, of Redlands, Cali-
fornia.
In Masonic circles Mr. Sanford had been
prominent from 1864, having reached the
thirty-third degree. He became a master
Mason in Paul Revere Lodge, A. F. & A. H.,
of which he was worshipful master in 1868
and 1869 ; he became district deputy grand
master of the 19th Masonic district and later
of the 24th Masonic district, in 1882-83-84;
senior grand warden of the grand lodge of
Massachusetts, in 1887, and was grand master
in 1903-04-05. In 1865 he was made a Royal
Arch Mason in the chapter at Abington, and
in 1869 a charter member of Satucket Chap-
ter, R. A. M., of Brockton, of which latter he
was the first high priest, serving three years;
was grand scribe of the grand chapter in 1878,
elected grand high priest in December, 1907,
and reelected in 1908. He was a member of
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Brockton Council, E. & S. M., of which he was
thrice illustrious master in 1895 and 1896, and
recorder for several years ; was grand conductor
of the grand council of Royal and Select
Masters of Massachusetts in 1898, and illus-
trious grand master of the council in 1900,
1901 and 1902. He was a charter member of
Bay State Commandery, K. T., was the second
eminent commander, and in 1883 was grand
captain of the host in the grand commandery
of Massachusetts (of which he was a permanent
member), and for fifteen years was recorder
of the commandery. He was a life member of
the Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second
degree, and on Sept. 15, 1893, was elevated to
the thirty-third degree.
In his life the church held a high place,
and while not a member he was faithful in his
attendance at the Porter Congregational
Church, of Brockton, which he served as treas-
urer for a number of years, and in the work
of which he was active and prominent.
On Aug. 19, 1856, Mr. Sanford was mar-
ried to Lucy Cotton Hapgood, daughter of
Capt. Benjamin and Anne (Whitman) Hap-
good, of Stow, Mass., the former a captain in
the war of 1812. Mrs. Sanford died in Boston
Nov. 25, 1907, beloved by all who knew her.
To Mr. and Mrs. Sanford were born three
daughters, namely: Irene Gertrude, unmar-
ried;'Anne Cora, who died in 1860, in infancy;
and Mabel Louise, who died in 1869, in the
third year of her age.
Personally Mr. Sanford was a man of cul-
tivated tastes whose quiet, yet cordial and
democratic, manner was a strong characteristic.
His politeness was inborn, and being void seem-
ingly of any consciousness of his own superiority
he was ever a simple-mannered, courteous
gentleman. His friends were among the young
as well as the old. He was a member of the
"Mayflower Descendants," as is his daughter,
who is also a member of Paul Revere Chapter,
D. A. R., of Boston. For a number of years
Mr. Sanford and his family resided at the
"Brunswick Hotel" in Boston, and after the
death of his wife he found his happiness in
the companionship of his devoted daughter.
He died Nov. 16, 1909, in Boston, after an ill-
ness of scarcely fifteen minutes, and his re-
mains were brought to Brockton, the funeral
being held in the Porter Congregational
Church. Interment was made in Union
cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev.
Dr. F.A. Warfield, of Milford, and Rev. Dr.
A. M. Hyde, of Porter Church. Then followed
the simple blue lodge services conducted by
Merton S. Gurney, worshipful master of Paul
Revere Lodge. Masons to the number of three
hundred from all over the State, representatives
from every concern with which the deceased
had been connected, city and State officials
and friends — all were there to pay a last tribute
of respect to a man whom they knew to honor
and to revere. In the course of his eulogy
Rev. Dr. Warfield said: "He [Mr. Sanford]
always stood for that which is highest and best
in civic life, and to the realization of these
things he devoted his best endeavors. He was
never a partisan, but always a Puritan in his
aims and spirit. He recognized the other
man's point of view, but he saw with clearer
vision that which made for righteousness and
strength and to do this he gave himself. He
cared little for popularity, but set a high value
upon that which was true He "was
trustworthy in business. He knew only the
law of right Those who have been
•associated with him know full well his integrity.
As gentle as a woman but as firm as the most
stalwart man, he could bend to anything that
was right. He could make any concession to
honor but to nothing else."
It seems only just that this article should
contain a few of the expressions of the men
associated with him in many ways when the
news of his death reached the public.
Mayor John S. Kent: "No finer example
of a true gentleman and noble citizen can be
presented for the emulation of the man upon
whose shoulders rests the burdens of progres-
sive development in our city. He possessed
the virtues of lionesty, courage, simplicity and
sympathy, which together with his ability,
energy and devotion to principle made him a
man among men."
Fred Hanson in the Enterprise: "In my
feeble way I want to pay my respects to the
memory of Baalis Sanford, a man of un-
blemished character, of the strictest honesty and
integrity, a man without a blemish."
President Charles Howard of the Brockton
Agricultural Society : "He was always a friend
who could be relied upon though thick and
thin."
Ex-Gov. William L. Douglas: "The sudden
death of Baalis Sanford comes as a shock and
surprise to me. He was a man who was be-
loved by everybody always congenial,
a man of excellent character and strict integrity.
His life has been a worthy example for the
rising generation to follow."
• MORTON. The Mortons of East Freetown,
Bristol Co., Mass., formerly quite numerous
in that vicinity, but not now represented by
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549
many of the name, are the posterity of Maj.
Nathaniel Morton and descendants of the
eminent George Morton.
(I) George Morton, born about 1585, at
Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, came to New
England in the ship "Ann" in 1623. He had
married in Leyden, in 1612, Juliana Carpenter,
daughter of Alexander Carpenter, of Wrentham,
England. He is said to have served the Pil-
grims in important relations before coming
to this country, and published in England in
1621 the first history of the Colony, which was
entitled "A Relation or Journal of the Begin-
ning and Proceedings of the English Plantation
settled at Plymouth in New England." It is
commonly known as "Mourt's Relation." He
died in 1624. The children of George and
Juliana (Carpenter) Morton were: Nathaniel,
who married (first) Lydia Cooper and (sec-
ond) Mrs. Hannah Pemplar; Patience, who
married John Faunce; John; Sarah, who mar-
ried George Bonum; and Ephraim. Of these,
Nathaniel was secretary of Plymouth Colony
from 1647 to 1685, and author of that very
valuable work known as the "Old Colony
Memorial," compiled from the observations and
writings of himself and Gov. William Brad-
ford, second governor of Plymouth Colony. As
early as 1668 Nathaniel Morton was elected a
selectman of Plymouth and held that office
twenty-one years. He was chosen to represent
the town of Pljinouth in the Colonial Court
as early as 1659 and served in that capacity
twenty-seven years. After the Old Colony was
united with that of Massachusetts Bay he was
elected to represent the town of Plymouth in
the Provincial Court at Boston.
(II) Lieut. Ephraim Morton, born in 1623
on the ship "Ann," married (first) Nov. 18,
1644, Ann Cooper, who died Sept. 1, 1691. He
married (second) in 1692 Mary, widow of
William Harlow, and daughter of Robert
Shelly, of Scituate. Mr. Morton became a free-
man in 1648, and in that year was constable
of Plymouth. He was chosen a representative
to the General Court at Plymouth in 1657, and
was a member of that body for twenty-eight
years. He was chosen the first representative
to the Massachusetts General Court under the
charter of 1691-92. He was for nearly twenty-
five years at the head of the board of selectmen
of Plymouth. He was chosen a magistrate of
the Colony in 1683, and at the time of his
death he was a justice of the court of Common
Pleas. He also served in other important re-
lations. He died Sept. 7, 1693. His children
were: George, born in 1645; Ephraim, born
in 1648 ; Rebecca, bom in 1651 ; Josiah, born
in 1653; Nathaniel; Eleazer, born in 1659;
Thomas, born in 1667; and Patience.
(III) Eleazer Morton, son of Ephraim, mar-
ried in 1693 Rebecca Dawes, daughter of Am-
brose, and their children were : Eleazer, born
in 1693; Ann, born in 1694 (married Robert
Finney); Nathaniel, born in 1695; and Re-
becca, born in 1703.
(IV) Nathaniel Morton, born in 1695, was
lost at sea before 1730. He married in 1720
Rebecca Ellis, widow of Mordecai Ellis, and
daughter of Thomas Clark, and their children
were: Elizabeth, born in 1720; Nathaniel,
born in 1723; Eleazer, born in 1724; and
Ichabod, born in 1726.
(V) Maj. Nathaniel Morton (2), of Free-
town, born Feb. 1, 1722-23, married in 1749
Martha Tupper, of Sandwich, daughter of
Eldad Tupper and granddaughter of Thomas
Tupper, and their children were : Nathaniel,
born in 1753; Martha; Elizabeth, and Job.
Nathaniel Morton, the father, was a soldier in
the Revolutionary war, being at first second
lieutenant in Capt. Levi Rounseville's company
of minute men, subsequently commander of a
company, and then promoted to major. There
were many members of the Morton family named
Nathaniel, and on Dec. 8, 1776, there were
among the officers and private soldiers of the
local militia of East Freetown who responded
to what was known as the "Rhode Island alarm"
no less than four Nathaniel Mortons : the com-
pany commander (later major) ; his son
Nathaniel (then called Nathaniel, Jr., but in
subsequent life widely known as Hon. Nathaniel
Morton), who was one of the four sergeants
of the company; Nathaniel Morton, Sr., and
Nathaniel Morton, 4th.
(VI) Job Morton, son of Maj. Nathaniel
Morton, was born at East Freetown June 14,
1770, and received fine educational advantages.
After attending the common schools he took a
collegiate course, and was graduated at Brown
University in 1797. He studied medicine, but
never practiced. Like his forefathers he took
a prominent part in the affairs of the town.
On April 1, 1805, he was elected a selectman
of Freetown, and served twenty-four years as
such ; on the same date he was chosen assessor
of Freetown, in which office he served twenty-
eight years. On May 14, 1814, he was chosen
representative of FreetoNvn in the General
Court, and served acceptably for eleven years.
On Feb. 9, 1811, he was commissioned a justice
of the peace for the county of Bristol. In 1812
he was appointed clerk of the county courts,
but it is not known that he accepted this posi-
tion; if he did, he held it only a short time.
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He was also chairman of the board of com-
missioners of highways, which soon came to be
known as the board of county commissioners.
In 1808 Job Morton married Patience Pur-
rington (or Purington), of Middleboro, and
they lived in an old-fashioned unpretentious
looking house still standing in East Freetown,
about a third of a mile from the line that
divides Freetown from Lakeville, in which all
their children were born. Mr. Morton died in
March, 1843, in the house mentioned near the
one in which he was born. His wife died Feb.
15,1841. They had children as follows : (1)
James Madison, born April 28, 1803, is men-
tioned at length elsewhere in this work. (2)
Albert Gallatin, born Aug. 8, 1804, lived and
died in Freetown. He was a clergyman of the
Christian denominatioil. (3) Charles Austin,
born May 14, 1806, died in a house standing
only a few rods from the one in which he was
born. For a time he held a position in the
Boston custom house; was selectman of Free-
town nine years; assessor eight years; member
of the school committee nine years; representa-
tive to the General Court, one year; and was
a justice of the peace for the county of Bristol
from April 11, 1839. No man in East Free-
town or anywhere was better posted regarding
the local affairs of that place and the immediate
vicinity, he and his neighbor. Dr. Bradford
Braley, being "lively oracles" to and "walking
histories" of East Freetown, and the adjacent
parts of Lakeville and Rochester. (4) Elbridge
Gerry, born March 8, 1808, moved to Fair-
haven, where he lived for many years. He was
a leader in the public life of that place, serving
five years as selectman ; sixteen years as
moderator of the annual town meeting; three
years as representative to the General Court
in Boston ; delegate to the Constitutional con-
vention of 1853 ; and was elected in 1853 a
member of the board of commissioners of
Bristol county (which consisted of three com-
missioners and two special commissioners), of
which board he was immediately chosen chair-
man. Toward the close of his life he was post-
master at Fairhaven. (5) William G., born
April 10, 1810, died March 8, 1811. (6)
Hannah P., born in the year 1811, married
Harrison Staples, of Lakeville, Mass., where
she died. (7) Andrew Jackson is mentioned
below. (8) William A., born March 20, 1817,
at the old place, was reared there, and died
in 1886, in the house in which he was bom.
The sons of this family were all "six footers"
and were of marked personality.
(VII) Andrew Jackson Morton, son of Job,
was born July 5, 1812, in Freetown, Mass.,
and was a farmer all his life, dying March 10,
1893. He lived in East Freetown, near the
old homestead, his farm comprising what is
now Lake Side park. In politics he was a Re-
publican, but he was not active in party affairs
or public matters of any kind. He married
Abbie Lawrence, who was born Sept. 18, 1817,
daughter of Alden and Chloe (Sherman)
Lawrence, of Freetown, and died March 25,
1906. They were the parents of a large family,
namely: William Grey, born Feb. 6, 1838,
died at sea Jan. 18, 1878 ; George Washington,
born Oct. 22, 1840, died June 2, 1842 ; Patience
Purrington was born Nov. 24, 1842; Martha
Washington, born April 1, 1845, married
Charles F. Vauglm, of Middleboro, and lives
at Weymouth; George Andrew, born Jan. 31,
1848, died Aug. 2, 1850 ; Myron Lawrence, bom
June 25, 1850, is living in Boston; Frank
Pierce, born Jan. 4, 1853, lives in New Bed-
ford; Thomas J. is mentioned below; Herbert
Andrew is mentioned below; Anna Cora, born
Feb. 28, 1862, died Nov. 14, 1888.
(VIII) Thomas J. Morton, son of Andrew
J., was born in East Freetown March 2, 1856.
He received all his education in the public
school of East Freetown, leaving school at the
age of twelve years. From that time until
he was seventeen he was engaged in the usual
work on the farm, and then went to learn the
trade of machinist at the Taunton Locoifiotive
Works, in Taunton. He worked in the machine
shops of the Old Colony and Boston & Albany
railroads, and for a time acted as foreman on
the Boston & Albany road, following this work
until the fall of 1882 ; at that time he engaged
in ijhe laundry business with his brother, buy-
ing out a small laundry, on Summer street,
and installing new machinery throughout. At
this time they gave employment to six hands.
Remaining there until 1386, they removed from
the original location iato their present fine
laundry building, which they erected, though
it was not then as large as now, three additions
having been since built. Their laundry plant
is now one of the finest in southeastern Massa-
chusetts, and they give employment to sixty
people. Their business is gathered from twenty
or more places, ranging from Manchester to
Boston. Mr. Morton has been a successful man
and his prosperity is of his own making. He
has other interests in addition to his laundry
business, having been a corporator of the
Bristol County Savings and Taunton Savings.
Banks, and he is a trustee of the former. He
is a Republican in politics and socially he unites
with the Masons, holding membership in Ionic
Lodge, A. P. & A. M., St. Mark's Chapter,
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551
R. A. M., of Taunton, and Bristol Commandery,
No. 29, K. T., of Attleboro. In January, 1890,
Mr. Morton was elected second lieutenant of
Company F, 1st Regiment Infantry, 1st
Brigade, M. V. M., and served two years, resign-
ing at the end of that period.
On Oct. 30, 1897, Mr. Morton married Helen
L. Watts, daughter of William Watts, formerly
of England. They have no children.
(VIII) Herbert Andrew Morton was
born in Lakeville, Mass., near the old home-
stead in East Freetown, March 16, 1858. His
early training was obtained in the district
schools in East Freetown and was limited, but
he later had two terms in a graded school in
Middleboro, when about eighteen or nineteen
years of age. When only nine years of age he
went away from home to live in another family,
so it may readily be seen that whatever he has
has been acquired through his own efforts. In
1878 he spent part of his time in Taunton,
where in November, 1882, he went into the
laundry business with his brother. He had,
however, been working a few years for William
Webster, and liis brother Myron Morton, who
was then in the clothing business in Taunton.
The success of the Morton Brothers and the
remarkable growth of their laundry establish-
ment is due to the fact that both are men of
energy and executive ability, and by harmonious
cooperation they have placed their business on
a profitable basis. Everything is carried on in
the most modern fashion and the plant is a
credit to the community. Herbert A. Morton
is well known socially, being a member of Ionic
Lodge, A. F. & A. M. (of which he is a past
master), St. Mark's Chapter, R. A. M., Bristol
Commandery, K. T. (of Attleboro), the Eastern
Star, and Sabbatia Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. He is a
Republican in politics.
On June 29, 1909, Mr. Morton married Alice
Shaw, daughter of William and Fannie (Coffin)
Shaw, the former of Nantucket. They have
no children.
(VI) Hon. Nathaniel Morton (3), of Free-
town, first son and second child of Nathaniel
(2), born June 1, 1753, married in 1782 Mary
(Polly), daughter of Eleazer Carey, of Bridge-
water, and their children were : Marcus, born
Feb. 19, 1784; Mary, born Sept. 28, 1786, who
became the wife of Rev. Elijah Doxtcr (they
were the parents of Rev. Henry M. Dexter) ;
and maybe others.
Mr. Morton was a farmer in moderate cir-
cumstances, self-educated, self-reliant and with
strong practical common sense. He was repre-
sentative to the General Court, a member of
the Senate from Bristol county, justice of the
court of Sessions, and at one time collector
of the port at New Bedford. He served as
selectman of Freetown twenty-four years; as-
sessor twenty-six years; moderator of annual
town meeting fourteen years; and was eight
times chosen to represent the town in the
General Court. On May 14, 1804, he was
elected to a seat in the Senate board and held
that position for five consecutive years, and
was a delegate from Freetown to the State
convention of 1820. Near the close of the
eighteenth century he was appointed a justice
of the peace for the county of Bristol and at a
considerably later date was commissioned to
administer the oaths of qualification to civil
officers "dedimus potestatum," and was chair-
man of the board of county commissioners.
He passed a few of the last years of his life
at Taunton, where he died at the residence of
his son, Gov. Marcus Morton.
(VII) Hon. Marcus Morton, LL. D.,
lawyer, member of Congress, justice of the
Supreme court of Massachusetts, governor, was
born Feb. 19, 1784, in East Freetown, Mass.,
the son of Nathaniel and Mary (Carey) Morton.
He was graduated with high honors from Brown
University in 1804, when twenty years of age.
He commenced the study of law in the office
of Hon. Seth Padelford, then judge of Probate
for Bristol county, and completed his legal
education in the then famous law school in
Litchfield, Conn., at which school studied also
his contemporary, John C. Calhoun. He began
the practice of law in 1807 in Taunton. He
rose high in the legal profession.
Mr. Morton was a Democrat, and as such
met with opposition in the Federalist town
of Taunton, but in the course of his life he
held nearly every office it was in the power of
the people to bestow upon him. In 1811 and
1812 he was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate.
He was also county attorney for Bristol county.
He was a member of Congress from 1817 for
several years, and took part in the discussions
on the Missouri Compromise. In 1823 he was
a member of the executive council. He was
chosen lieutenant governor in 1824 with
Eustice at the head of the ticket, and after
Governor Eustice's death, Feb. 6, 1825, to the
end of the term for which he was elected he
was the acting governor. He was brought in
intimate relations during this time with
LaFayette, who was then visiting this country.
He was again chosen lieutenant governor, and
in that same year was appointed to the Supreme
bench of the State and took his seat July 5,
1825. He was chosen governor of Massachu-
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setts in 1839 by the people and again in 1843
by the Legislature. On May 1, 1845, he was
made collector of the port of Boston, a re-
lation to the service he sustained some four
years. He was in sympathy with the Free-soil
movement in 1848, in 1853 he was delegate to
the Constitutional Convention, and in 1858 was
again in the Legislature. His period of service
on the bench covered fifteen years, and his
Congressional service four years. For several
years he was one of the overseers of Harvard
University.
Governor Morton had a tall, commanding
figure, was fine-looking, quiet and self-possessed
in manner ; and his wife was an elegant woman,
a person of beauty and grace.
On Dec. 23, 1807, Governor Morton was
married to Charlotte, born Dec. 33, 1787,
daughter of James Hodges, of Taunton, and a
direct descendant of William Hodges, of Taun-
ton as early as 1643. The children born to
Governor Morton and his wife Charlotte
(Hodges) were: (1) Joanna Maria married
William T. Hawes, of New Bedford, a graduate
of Brown University. (2) Lydia Mason mar-
ried Henry W. Lee, D.D., of Springfield, Mass.,
and Rochester, N. Y., afterward bishop in the
Protestant Episcopal Church, in Iowa. (3)
Charlotte married Samuel Watson, of Nash-
ville, Tenn. (4) Sarah Carey married Hon.
Willard Lovering, a manufacturer of Taunton.
(5) Marcus married Abby, daughter of Henry
Hopping, Esq., of Providence. (6) Nathaniel
married Harriet, only child of Hon. Francis
Baylies. (7) James married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Hon. George Ashmun, of Springfield.
(8) Susan Tillinghast married M. Day Kim-
ball, of the firm of Faulkner, Page & Kimball,
Boston. (9) Frances Wood married George
Henry French, of Andover. (10) Emily
Matilda married Daniel C, son of Dr. Dawes,
of Taunton, a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y. Of
these, the three sons were graduated from
Brown University, Marcus in 1838, Nathaniel
in 1840, and James in 1843; all were dis-
tinguished in college and became eminent
lawyers, the eldest becoming chief justice of the
Supreme court of Massachusetts.
Governor Morton died at his home on Wash-
ington street, near Broadway, Taunton, Mass.,
Feb. 6, 1864. His wife Charlotte (Hodges)
Morton died Dec. 25, 1873 ; both are buried in
Mount Pleasant cemetery, Taunton.
NATHANIEL CHURCH (deceased) was
during his life a well-known business man and
prominent citizen of Fairhaven, where he was
born Nov. 16, 1798. The Church family of
which he was a representative is among the
oldest and most prominent in New England,
the name being identified with the an-
nals of southern Rhode Island and southeast-
ern Massachusetts from almost the very dawn
of civilization there.
Richard Church, the immigrant settler and
progenitor of the Churches of the region named,
was born in 1608. He came to New England
in 1630 in the fleet with Governor Winthrop.
He removed from Weymouth to Plymouth,
where he was made a freeman in 1632, and
where he married, in 1636, Elizabeth, daughter
of Richard Warren, of the "Mayflower," 1620.
He lived at a number of different points, died
in 1668 in Dedham, and was buried at Hing-
ham. He was a carpenter by trade, and
helped to build the first meetinghouse and the
first gun carriage in Plymouth. He served in
the Pequot war. Locating at Eastham in 1653,
he was then at Charlestown and in 1657 was
at Hingham. He was the father of thirteen
children, among them Col. Benjamin Church,
who settled in Little Compton, R. L, from
whom Nathaniel Church descended.
Col. Benjamin Church is credited with hav-
ing been the first white settler in the town of
Little Compton (1674), which was then in
Massachusetts, but is now in Rhode Island, and
with building the first house there. The name,
fame and usefulness of Col. Benjamin Church
were as broad as New England, and in the
general histories of the New World his deeds
are always recognized. It was he who beat
back the red man and opened the way for the
habitation of the white settler that followed —
hunting Philip to his death, Aug. 13, 1676.
He thoroughly understood the character of the
Indians and their modes of warfare, which
latter he adopted with great success. Colonel
Church was to southern New England what
Miles Standish had been to the first genera-
tion of the Plymouth Colonists — a buckler and
shield in the hour of danger; but he had far
more experience in military affairs than fell
to the lot of the Pilgrim captain. It was
destined for him to strike the first and last
decisive blows in Philip's war, by which he is
now best known to fame. So great was the
reputation he gained that he was afterward con-
stantly called to the field to repel the French
and Indians at the North and East. Colonel
Church married Alice Southworth. A brother
of Colonel Church, J^iweph Church, also was
one of the first settlers of Little Compton. He
married Mary Tucker and became a promi-
nent public man of the town.
The descendants of Richard Church became
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553
numerous and, as stated, distinguished in that
part of Rhode Island and Massachusetts al-
luded to. Among these the late Nathaniel
Church was prominent.
Joseph Church, father of Nathaniel, made
his home in Fairhaven, where he was engaged
in business and where he lived all his life. He
died in Fairhaven in 1839. He married Deb-
orah Perry, and they became the parents of
six children.
Nathaniel Church, son of Joseph and Deb-
orah (Perry) Church, was born in Fairhaven
Nov. 16, 1798. He attended the local schools
and grew to manhood in his native home, where
he received a thorough business training. He
formed a partnership with his brother, Eben-
ezer P. Church, and they entered into the
general mercantile business at Adamsville, in
the town of Little Compton, under tlie firm
name of E. P. Church & Co. This business
continued until 1831, when he withdrew from
the partnership and again located at Fairhaven,
becoming engaged in the mercantile business
for himself, which he followed for a number of
years. He next became interested in the brass
foundry business, also the whaling industry,
and being a man of progressive ideas and en-
terprise made a success of whatever he under-
took. He took a deep interest in his native
town and its people, and was known for his
strict honesty and high moral character. He
served as town clerk of Fairhaven for many
years, and also filled the office of selectman and
overseer of the poor of his native town; served
as a member of the State Legislature; and was
often called upon to settle estates, etc. He
was a public-spirited man, generous, and al-
ways ready to lend a helping hand. Politically
he was an old-line Whig, later a Republican
and a stanch supporter of Abraham Lincoln,
strongly opposed to slavery. His death oc-
curred March 17, 1865, in his sixty-seventh
year, and he was buried in Riverside cemetery,
Fairhaven.
Mr. Church married May 23, 1829, Lydia
Hicks, bom Dec. 15, 1800, in Westport, Mass.,
daughter of Barney Hicks, a sketch of whom
will be found elsewhere in this publication.
Mrs. Church was a devout Christian woman
and took much pleasure in her home and fam-
ily. Her death occurred at her home in Fair-
haven April 12, 1885, and she was buried be-
side her husband. She was an attendant of the
Congregational Church. Mr. and Mrs. Church
were the parents of the following children:
Sarah C, who resides in Fairhaven ; Nancy F.,
deceased ; Mary L., who married Ansel G. Jen-
ney, now a widow residing in Cincinnati (Mr.
Jenney was a native of Fairhaven and was a
well known banker of Cincinnati, where he
died July, 1895, leaving four children, Lyman,
Bessie, who married William B. Mundie, of
Chicago, William and Elise, wife of Aden
Finch, of Cincinnati) ; and Lydia M., who
died at her home in Fairhaven Aug. 15, 1910.
BORDEN (Westport family). The Borden
family of the town of Westport here briefly
treated is a branch of the early Rhode Island
family of the name, a family that dates back
to the early history of Rhode Island and Massa-
chusetts, and one that has played a most impor-
tant part in the great industrial life of Fall
River. The particular branch of the Borden
family here alluded to is that of which the head
was the late Christopher Borden of Westport,
who was long closely identified with the history
of his town, and some of whose sons now repre-
sent the name in Westport, where they are
substantial men and useful citizens.
The history of the Westport Borden family
in question follows in chronological order from
the immigrant settler.
(I) Richard Borden, born in 1601, died May
25, 1671. The Christian name of his wife was
Joan. She was born in 1604 and died July
15, 1688. Mr. Borden was admitted an inhabi-
tant of the island of Aquidneck in 1638, being
then of Portsmouth, R. I. On May 20th of that
same year he was allotted five acres of land.
He took an important and active part in the
early affairs of Portsmouth. He was assistant
in 1653-54; general treasurer in 1654-55; com-
missioner in 1654-56-57; and deputy in 1667-
70. The children of Richard and Joan Borden
were : Thomas, Francis, Mary, Matthew, John,
Joseph, Sarah, Samuel, Benjamin and Amey.
(II) John Borden, born in September, 1640,
married Dec. 25, 1670, Mary, born in 1655,
daughter of William and Mary (Walker) Earle,
and was of Portsmouth, R. I., and, like his
father, was prominent in the public affairs of
the town. He was deputy in 1673, 1680, 1700,
1704, 1705 and 1708. He died June 4, 1716,
and his wife in June, 1734. Their children
were : Richard, John, Amey, Joseph, Thomas,
Hope, Mary, William and Benjamin.
(III) Richard Borden, born Oct. 25, 1671,
married about 1692 Innocent Wardell. He
lived on the main road about a mile from the
east shore of Mount Hope bay and two and a
half miles south of the city hall in Fall River,
his homestead comprising about 200 acres of
land. He became one of the wealthiest men
in the town, and at the time of his death he
was one of the largest landholders in the town.
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He lived until about the age of sixty years.
His children were : Sarah, John, Thomas, Mary,
Joseph, Samuel and Eebecca.
(IV) Thomas Borden, bom Dec. 8, 1697,
married Aug. 14, 1721, Mary, born Oct. 6,
1695, daughter of Christopher and Meribah
Gifiord. Mr. Borden died in April, 1740, in
Tiverton, R. I. Their children were : Richard,
born in 1722; Christopher, born Oct. 10, 1726;
Deborah; Mary, and Eebecca.
(V) Christopher Borden, son of Thomas,
born Oct. 10, 1726, married Dec. 24, 1748,
Hannah Borden, daughter of Stephen. Chris-
topher Borden inherited from his father what
was known as the Cranberry Neck property with
other lands, and became a farmer there, and
probably built the first sawmill on the site,
where stood some years ago the mill of younger
generations of the family. He was one of the
substantial men of his commimity. He died
in 1800.
(VI) Jonathan Borden, son of Christopher,
born May 5, 1761, married Elizabeth Bowen.
Mr. Borden was a farmer and mill owner, a
very active business man, was successful in his
undertakings, and was honest and straight-
forward. He was a man of a social and genial
nature. His death occurred May 19, 1848.
His children were : Abraham, Phebe, Thomas,
Rhoda, Isaac and Elizabeth.
(VII) Abraham Borden, son of Jonathan
and Elizabeth (Bowen), was bom July 20,
1793, on the farm occupied after him by his
son Christopher, in the town of Westport, Mass.,
and in the house in which he went to housekeep-
ing and continued to live through life. He inher-
ited a farm from his father which, with some
land he himself purchased, made him an estate
of some 270 acres. In addition to farming he
was occupied in lumbering. He was a man of
quiet disposition and rather reserved in man-
ner, going through life in the even tenor of his
way, caring nothing for political preferment
or the excitement that goes with politics,
although he had opinions of his own, and was
fixed in them. He married Phebe, daughter
of Lemuel and Maria (Tripp) Barker, of Dart-
mouth. Three children blessed the marriage,
namely: Christopher; Rhoda, who married
Abiel Davis; and Maria R., who married Capt.
Weston Jenney. The mother was a member
of the Society of Friends, and her husband,
while not a member, attended the Friends'
meetings. He died Oct. 28, 1864.
(VIII) Christopher Borden, son of Abraham
and Phebe (Barker) Borden, was bom Oct. 20,
1815, in that part of Tiverton, R. I., that later
became the town of Westport, Mass., and on
land that had been for generations before him
occupied by his ancestors. He was reared amid
agricultural pursuits and attended the schools
of his neighborhood, furthering his studies ia
the Friends' School in Providence, R. I. After
his school days were over he returned to the
farm, becoming associated . with his father in
the conduct of the farm and in the lumbering
business. In these operations he in time suc-
ceeded his father. Mr. Borden, though occupy-
ing the same farm, by the changing of
boundary lines lived in two States and three
towns, Tiverton, R. I., and Fall River and
Westport, Mass. He was much in the public
service of his tovra; was a member of the town
council of Tiverton, frequently served as select-
man of Westport ; was a member of the auditing
committee for years, and held other minor
ofiices. A man possessing the confidence of his
fellow citizens, and one having managed his
own affairs successfully, he was frequently
called upon to settle estates. He was a man of
a sunny, cheerful and genial disposition, and
won and held friends. His political aiEliations
were first with the Whig party, then with the
Republican. He was a stockholder in the
Metacomet, Pocasset and Union Banks of Fall
River, and of the Commercial Bank at New
Bedford. He also held stock in the Flint, Bar-
nard and Weetamoe Mills in Fall River, and
was interested in and a director of the Fall
River Manufacturing Company.
On Feb. 11, 1839, Mr. Borden married Lucy
H., daughter of Peter and Sarah S. (Howland)
Davis, who was born Feb. 11, 1818, in West-
port, Mass. She died March 10, 1897. Six
children blessed the marriage, namely: Jona-
than ; Alice A., who married George H. Hicks,
of Fall River, and had children, Christopher
B., Lester, Edgar A., Alice and George H. ;
Mary E., who married Isaac W. Howland, of
Little Compton, R. I., and died leaving a son
William W. ; Othniel T., who was accidentally
killed while hunting, at the age of nineteen;
Edwin; and Phebe S., v;ho married Arthur D.
Cornell, and died leaving two daughters, Lucy
Sarah and Mary Elizabeth. Mr. Borden died
at his home in Westport, Mass., Dec. 12, 1894.
(IX) Jonathan Bokden, son of Christopher
and Lucy H. (Davis) Borden, was born May
15, 1841, in that part of Tiverton, R. I., that
became Westport, Mass., the eldest of a family
of six children. He attended the public schools
of his native town, remaining at home until
fourteen years of age. He then went to work
for his grandfather Borden, later marrying and
locating in the town and upon lands held by
successive generations of his ancestors, and con-
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555
tinuing to be occupied in agricultural pursuits.
He has followed in the footsteps of his father,
and has long been one of Westport's leading
farmers and substantial men. For three years
he served as selectman of the town. He is of
a quiet, unassuming nature, and has so lived
as to have the respect and esteem of his com-
munity.
On Nov. 7, 1861, Mr. Borden married Mary
M., born April 24, 1846, daughter of Thomas
and Mary (Snell) Estes, he a direct descendant
of Richard Estes, who came from Dover, Eng-
land, to this country in 1684 (stopping a few
days in Boston, thence proceeding to what is
now Portsmouth, R. I., there joining his brother
Matthew who had preceded him), from whom
his descent is through Robert Estes, Thomas
Estes and Peter Estes. Seven children have
blessed the marriage of Jonathan Borden to
Mary M. Estes, namely : Mercy D. married
Walter F. Grinnell, of Tiverton, R. I., and has
three children, Annie May, Wilfred and Doro-
thy; Thomas E., born Aug. 9, 1866, married
Macie Grinnell, lives in Westport, and has six
children, Myra T., Clarence, Louise, Raymond,
Philip and Katherine; Othniel T., born Dec.
18, 1868, married Sarah P. Upham, resides at
Westport, and has children, Othniel, Esther
and Osmund; Christopher, born Nov. 27, 1871,
married Alice F. Greene, lives at Westport,
and has children, Mildred, Gertrude, Chris-
topher, Vivian and Jonathan; Mary R., born
June 20, 1874, married James H. Kay, of Fall
River, and has children, Harold, Henry, Bere-
nice and Dorothy; Jennie M., born Jan. 1,
1878, married Arthur M. Read; Jonathan L. is
deceased. The mother of these died Sept. 10,
1896.
(IX) Edwin Boeden, son of Christopher
and Lucy H. (Davis) Borden, was born June
26, 1850, in that part of Tiverton, R. I., now
Westport, Mass. He attended the public schools
of his native town and the Friends' School in
Providence, R. I. Mr. Borden continued at
home assisting his father in his farming and
business operations until his marriage, and has
since been engaged in farming and business for
himself.
Unlike his father before him Mr. Borden has
given little or no time to politics in the way of
office seeking or holding, having no taste in that
direction. He has, however, ever taken that
interest in public affairs that becomes any good
citizen, and is a Republican in principle. He
has many acquaintances and friends who hold
him in the highest esteem for his many good
qualities. He is a member of Mount Vernon
Lodge, No. 157, K. of P., Fall River.
On March 2, 1871, Mr. Borden married Mary
E., daughter of William and Nancy (Pierce)
Young, and their children are: Minnie E.,
born Sept. 16, 1872, married George S. Law-
ton, and has two children, Ina A. and Alice E. ;
Ida H., born Sept. 19, 1874, married Henry J.
Sampson; William C, born Aug. 17, 1878,
married Cora Macomber, lives at Westport, and
has three children. Hazel L., Elton M. and
Eleanor M. ; Beriah E., born May 16, 1880,
resides at Westport, where he is prominent in
Masonry, being a Knight Templar and a Shrin-
er; and Minerva A., born Dec. 26, 1882, mar-
ried Walter F. Sanford, of Dorchester, Mass.
(no issue).
DR. FREDERICK HUBBARD HOOPER.
In the death of Dr. Frederick Hubbard Hooper
the city of New Bedford lost one of its eminent
medical practitioners and a citizen who in fifty
years of residence there had proved himself
worthy of the confidence and respect of his
fellow men. He was a native of the State of
New Hampshire, born at Walpole June 12,
1829.
John Hooper was the first of the name in
Bridgewater. He married Sarah, perhaps the
daughter of .John Harden, and they had chil-
dren born in the very beginning of the eigh-
teenth century, and before their location in
Bridgewater.
Levi Hooper was bom in Bridgewater in
1742, and in 1767 married Susanna Leach.
When a young man he went on a whaling voy-
age to Hudson bay, and on his return enlisted
as a soldier in the French and Indian war,
which closed in 1763. On the expiration of
his term of enlistment — nine months — he was
unable to get his pay unless he would remain
in the service three months longer; this he
did, but at the close of the time he was no
better off, and so with three other soldiers he
took "French leave" and made for home. On
reaching Walpole, N. H., the soil and heavy
growth of timber pleased Mr. Hooper so much
that he was induced to return, after visiting
his home and friends, and locate there. He
returned to Walpole in 1771, and soon after
buried his wife Susanna. He married (sec-
ond) in 1771 Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Hall,
by whom he had six children. He bought in
1775 the Samuel Chase farm and located on
the southern part of it. In 1781 he built and
moved into the so-called mansion, later the
residence of George D. Hooper, of Walpole;
there he lived and died. In the Revolution he
served as second lieutenant of a company in
General Bellows's regiment, and later as cap-
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tain. Captain Hooper was a man of resolute
character, held many town offices and accumu-
lated a competence.
Salmon Hooper, son of Levi, bora Aug. 7,
1774, married Nov. 8, 1795, Kebecca Foster.
Levi Hooper (2), son of Salmon and Re-
becca, was born April 7, 1801, and married
Jan. 19, 1826, Harriet, daughter of John
Graves. Nine children were bom to this union.
Dr. Frederick Hubbard Hooper, son of Levi
and Harriet (Graves) Hooper, was born June
12, 1829, in Walpole, N. H., where he was
schooled and prepared in part for the medical
profession, completing his studies in the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York
City, from which institution he was graduated
with honors, taking the degree of M. D. He
practiced his profession for a time in his na-
tive town, then for a short time in Fall River,
Mass., where an uncle. Dr. J. Foster Hooper,
was located, and in 1857 came to New Bed-
ford, Mass., where for nearly fifty years he con-
tinued in the active practice of medicine, be-
coming one of the leading physicians of the
city and one of its best known citizens.
In his early professional career in New Bed-
ford Dr. Hooper for a period was located in
the "Parker Hovise." Later he established him-
self upon his own property, his residence on
the comer of William and County streets,
where he continued during the remaining years
of his active practice — some thirty-seven years.
During the Civil war Dr. Hooper was the
examining surgeon for the government in what
was styled the Cape Cod district. Of a retir-
ing disposition, he never sought or held politi-
cal office other than that alluded to above. He
was a charter member of the Massachusetts
Medical Society, and at one time served as its
secretary. He was a trustee of the New Bed-
ford Five Cents Savings Bank, and also a mem-
ber of the Wamsutta and Country Clubs. He
was a member of the Unitarian Society, attend-
ing that church for many years.
Dr. Hooper never married. He left sur-
viving him a sister, Mrs. Mary E. Weymouth,
of Walpole, N. H., and a brother, George L.
Hooper, of Lowell, Massachusetts. Dr. Hooper
died Aug. 31, 1908, at his home, aged seventy-
nine years, two months, nineteen days, and was
buried at Walpole, New Hampshire.
The excellent likeness of Dr. Hooper, ap-
pearing in this publication is presented solely
by Miss E. Maud Hume, who for nearly, twenty
years was the faithful housekeeper for Dr.
Hooper. Miss Hume is a native of Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia, daughter of the late Rev. Isaac
Hume, a minister of the Baptist denomination
afid well known in Lunenburg county. Nova
Scotia.
NOMUS PAIGE, M. D., one of the best
known physicians as well as one of the oldest in
point of service in Taunton, and one of that
town's most active, progressive and public-
spirited citizens, is a member of an ancient
Massachusetts family, and was born in Went-
worth, N. H., March 26, 1840, son of Joseph
and Pamelia (Ellsworth) Paige.
(I) John Page was of Hingham and Haver-
hill, Mass., removing to the latter town about
1652. He died Nov. 23, 1687, and his widow,
Mary (Marsh), died in 1697. Their children
were: John, baptized July 11, 1641; Onesiph-
orus, baptized Nov. 20, 1642; Benjamin, bap-
tized July 14, 1644; Mary, baptized May 3,
1646; Joseph, baptized March 5, 1647-48; Cor-
nelius, baptized July 15, 1649; Sarah, baptized
July 18, 1651; Elizabeth, born June 15, 1653;
Mercy, born April 1, 1655; Ephraim, born Feb.
27, 1658-59.
(II) Onesiphorus Page, son of John and
Mary (Marsh) Page, was born about 1642, and
was a weaver at Salisbury, where he took the
oath of fidelity and allegiance, and where he
was a householder in 1677. He married (first)
Nov. 22, 1664, Mary Hauxworth, and (second)
July 31, 1695, Sarah (Morrill), widow of
Philip Eowell. He died June 28, 1687. His
children were: Mary, who died Oct. 5, 1666;
Mary (2), born Oct. 29, 1666; Joseph, born
April 6, 1670; Abigail, born June 23, 1672;
Mary, born Nov. 18, 1674: Sarah, bom July
6, 1677; Onesiphorus, born Feb. 10, 1679; Cor-
nelius, who died in 1683; Mary, born Sept. 29,
1686; and John, born Feb. 21, 1696-97.
(III) Joseph Page, son of Onesiphorus and
Mary (Hauxworth), born April 6, 1670, mar-
ried (first) March 12, 1690-91, Sarah Smith,
who died in 1693. The name of his second wife
was Elizabeth. His children were : Sarah,
born Oct. 13, 1691; Judith, Oct. 22, 1693;
John, June 17, 1696 (married Mary Winsley) ;
Joseph, Sept. 3, 1698; Joshua, Nov. 15, 1700;
Benjamin, May 14, 1703; Mary, May 26, 1706;
and Onesiphorus, Sept. 18, 1708.
(IV) John Page, son of Joseph and Eliza-
beth, was born June 17, 1696. In 1720 he
married Mary Winsley, and they lived in South
Hampton and in Salisbury. They became the
parents of children as follows: Ebenezer, born
July 19, 1720 ; Samuel ; Betsey, born Aug. 12,
1724; Moses, Sept. 3, 1726; John. Nov. 11,
1728: Ephraim, March 16, 1731; Mary, April
5, 1733; Benjamin, Aug. 17, 1735; Benjamin
(3), Aug. 6, 1737; and Enoch, Sept. 29, 1741.
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557
John Page and his five sons — Samuel, John,
Ephraim, Moses and Enoch — were original pro-
prietors of Wentworth. Two of the sons,
Ephraim and Enoch (called Major), moved
from Salisbury to Wentworth at its earliest set-
tlement, and appear to have been the only orig-
inal proprietors who permanently settled in the
town (Dr. Hoyt's History of Wentworth). Maj.
Enoch Page was appointed one of the judges of
the Inferior court for the county of Grafton.
(V) Ephraim Page, son of John and Mary,
was born March 16, 1731, and died Nov. 4,
1802. He married Hannah Currier, 'frho was
baptized May 2-1, 1738, and died July 9, 1813,
As above stated, Ephraim Page was of Salis-
bury, Mass., and Wentworth, N. H. He had
three sons: John, born 1769; Samuel, 1773;
and Currier, 1781.
(VI) John Page, son of Ephraim, born May
24, 1769, died Sept. 5, 1840. He was a lad of
only four or five years when his father moved
to Wentworth. Of schooling he had very little,
but he was a man of good mind and excellent
memory, early showed marked capacity for busi-
ness, and was successful in whatever he under-
took. At his father's death he inherited the
homestead (afterward the town farm), where
for many years he resided. He was one of the
largest farmers and landliolders in town, own-
ing a large quantity of land in various parts
of the town, especially Ellsworth Hill. About
1824 he moved to the village, and for a short
time kept tavern at the old stand, which he then
owned. The business, however, not being con-
genial to his tastes, he moved to the three-story
house adjoining, where he made his home until
his death. He married Hannah Elimball, born
April 5, 1772, died Feb. 17, 1837, daughter of
Joseph Kimball, one of the early settlers. She
was a woman greatly beloved by all who knew
her. To John and Hannah Page were born
children as follows : James, born July 26,
1794; Ephraim, May 22, 1796 ; John, Jr., April
27, 1798 ; Elinor, Feb. 19, 1800 ; Samuel, March
17, 1803; Joseph, July 19, 1805; Hannah,
April 17, 1807; Simon, April 20, 1809 ; Louisa,
April 18, 1811 : Sally, May 30, 1814; and Han-
nah, April 13, 1816.
(VII) Joseph Page, son of John and Han-
nah, bom July 19, 1805, died July 19, 1851.
On April 13, 1832. he married Nancy Peck,
(second) Feb. 18, 1836, Betsey Webster, and
(third) Sept. 22, 1839, Pamelia Ellsworth
(born June 17, 1807, died July 19, 1872). To
the first marriage was born a daughter Sarah
(born 1832), who married R. W. Shelbourne
in 1855. No children were born of the second
marriage, but to the third came: Nomus and
Onias, born March 26, 1840, of whom Onias
died March 26, 1840; Onias (2), born Oct. 9,
1841, who married June 30, 1868, Mary Louisa
Park; Octavia Catharine, born Feb. 11, 1843;
Helen M. and Ellen M., born Oct. 31, 1844;
Joseph, Jr., born July 12, 1846 ; and Ellen E.,
born July 12, 1848.
(VIII) Dr. Nomus Paige, son of Joseph and
Pamelia (Ellsworth), was born in Wentworth,
N. H., March 26, 1840. He received his early
education in the common schools of Wentworth,
and took a preparatory course of three years at
Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. From
there he entered the medical department of
Dartmouth College at Hanover in 1859, and
graduated in April, 1861. While there he re-
ceived instruction from the famous surgeon,
Prof. Dixi Crosby, the professor of surgery at
Dartmouth. Before his graduation Dr. Paige
became interne in the hospital on Deer island,
Boston Harbor, for six months, and at the same
time attended medical lectures at the Boston
Medical School. In June, 1861, he was ap-
pointed assistant physician at the State Lunatic
Asylum at Taunton, where he remained a little
over two years. In the latter part of 1863 he
established himself in the practice of his pro-
fession in Taunton, where he has continued for
nearly fifty years. While not having made a
specialty of surgery, he has had a wide experi-
ence in it. Dr. Paige's practice at one time was
larger perhaps than that of any other physi-
cian in southern New England. For twenty-
seven years he was physician to the Bristol
county jail.
Although so deeply engrossed in his pro-
fession, Dr. Paige has nevertheless been inter-
ested in the material development of the city
and was one of the builders and a director of
the Nemasket Mill (now a part of the New
England Cotton Yarn Company). In 1882 he
organized the Taunton Electric Light Com-
pany, it being the third company of the kind
in the State. Of this he became a director,
and in 1887 its treasurer, and he continued as
manager in control of the company until 1897,
when it was sold to the city. Under municipal
ownership he was appointed manager of the
plant, and so continued until 1901. This plant
is to-day krgely the product of the Doctor's
industry, energy and foresight. He is one of
the trustees of the Taunton Savings Bank. In
politics he is a Republican, and in the early
days of the city he was a member of the com-
mon council, and also city physician. He has
been a member of the Massachusetts Medical
Society since 1863, and has held all the offices
in that society; he is a trustee and a member
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of the consulting staff of Morton hospital. Dr.
Paige is a communicant of St. Thomas' Epis-
copal Church, of Taunton, and one of its
vestrymen.
On Nov. 22, 1866, Dr. Paige married Maria
Josephine Hewins, of Hyde Park, Mass., who
died in 1876. He married (second) June 30,
1881, Mrs. Nora (Colby) Baylies, daughter of
Samuel Colby, of Taunton. Dr. and Mrs.
Paige had two children, namely : Eussell Colby,
born Aug. 11, 1882, married Ethel G. Baker,
daughter of Charles F. Baker, of Taunton, and
has a son, Samuel Colby, born Oct. 5, 1909 ;
Katharine Crossman, born in February, 1884,
married Eugene W. Leach, of Concord, N. H.,
and* they have a daughter, Barbara, born Oct.
17, 1909. Mrs. Nora Paige died Aug. 13, 1903.
(VIII) De. Onias Paige, son of Joseph and
Pamelia (Ellsworth) Paige, was born in the old
town of Wentworth, N. H., Oct. 9, 1841, and
came to Taunton in 1862, at the age of twenty-
one, to study dentistry with Dr. John T. Cod-
man, whose office was on Main street. Dr. Cod-
man, in his youth, was a member of the famous
Brook Farm community, and a delightful por-
trayer of the people and scenes of that experi-
ment of associated labor. In March, 1865, Dr.
Paige opened his office in the City Hotel build-
ing, and this became his work home for the rest
of his busy life. Interested in good government,
he gave his ward and the city his best service
as councilman and alderman (representing the
Third ward), and finally as mayor for three
terms, in the years 1877, 1878 and 1879. His
administration was characterized by clean-cut,
efficient business methods, and he himself was
honestly devoted to the interests of the people.
When his work for the public was over he gave
close attention to his business, which had been
all the time large and lucrative.
Dr. Paige was for many years a member of
the Parish committee of the Unitarian Church,
and no one in the city had a larger acquaint-
ance with the clergy and laity of that denomi-
nation. He was a man who did his duty quietly
and unobtrusively, but none the less effectively.
He remained true to his ideals, and was known
as a man of unimpeachable integrity. His life
extended over more than threescore years —
busy, well-spent years.
Dr. Paige married, June 30, 1868, Mary L.
Park, of Taunton, and they had one daughter,
Abby Louise. Dr^ Paige died Sept. 2, 1905.
ELLERY C. CAHOON. The standard writ-
ers, such as Farmer, Savage and Pope, of the
pioneers of New England give nothing of the
Cahoons, but Baylies refers to William Gaboon
as an inhabitant of Rehoboth in 1665, where
nothing of vital record seems to appear.
Fragmentary accounts of the Gaboon family,
however, appear in Cape Cod towns. James
Gaboon is referred to as born Oct. 25, 1696,
son of Widow Mary Davis; wliile William and
Sarah Gaboon are given as among the first set-
tlers of Chatham. The latter was originally the
district of Manamoit or Monomoy, and became
incorporated as a town, in 1712. Another tract
of land called Satuckett became the town of
Harwich in 1694. Id this latter town have
'lived the branch of xhe Gaboon family here
considered — the descendants of a James
Gaboon, as will be observed farther on.
A James Gaboon figured in the early' pro-
ceedings of the town of Wellfleet, which be-
fore it was incorporated in a town was the
North precinct of Eastham. At the meeting
of the inhabitants of the North precinct, held
Jan. 29, 1738-39, James Gaboon was appointed
one of a committee "to take an account of ye
agents for building ye meeting house." Mr.
Gaboon was chosen one of the assessors in 1742-
43, and again in 1743-44. The family of Wil-
liam and Sarah Gaboon as of early Chatham
record as above alluded to were : Marcy, bom
May 7, 1717; Sarah, born March 4, 1719-20;
and James, born May 8, 1721.
James Gaboon of the early family of this
surname on Gape Cod lived in Harwich.
Seth Gaboon, son of James, of Harwich,
married Mariba (or according to another
Sally), and their six children were: Ezekiel,
Seth, Ziba, Hannah, Rebecca and Mariba. Of
these, Kzekiel is mentioned farther on; Seth
married Mehitable Godfrey and had children,
Seth, Benjamin and Mehitable; Ziba married
Ruth Bassett and their children were Ziba,
Nathaniel, Louisa, Ann, Sarah, Amanda; Re-
becca was the mother of Mrs. Almena Rob-
bins, of East Harwich.
Ezekiel Gaboon, son of Seth, was bom in
1799 in East Harwich, Mass., where his life
was spent in agricultural pursuits, and where
he died Sept. 22, 1877, aged seventy-eight years.
He married about 1826 Polly Baker, of East
Harwich, daughter of Anthony Baker, who died
April 24, 1853, aged eighty-seven years, five
months ; he was married three times, Mrs.
Gaboon's mother being his first wife. Mrs.
Gaboon was born in 1803, and died in East
Harwich Sept. 26, 1877, aged seventy-four
years, only a few day? after the death of her
husband. They were the parents of nine chil-
dren (the eldest born in 1827), namely: Eze-
kiel (whose wife's name was Catherine), Ellery
E., Alonzo, Benjamin, Trxunan, Marrietta,
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
559
Polly, Emma and Catherine. Of these, Alonzo
married a Snow (first name possibly Cather-
ine), and Capt. Frank Cahoon, of South Chat-
ham, is his son.
Ellery Eldridge Cahoon, son of Ezekiel, was
born in 1830 in East Harwich, Mass., and died
in East Brewster, Mass., in 1863. In early
life he was a shoemaker, receiving the stock for
the shoes from the Melrose factories and making
the same at his home, as was the custom in
those days. Later he had a store in Brewster,
and also ran a team on the Cape, selling Yan-
kee notions, hardware, etc. In politics he was a
Whig and latet a Eepublican. He was a mem-
ber of the Baptist Church. He married Sarah
Freeman, of Brewster, Jlass., daughter of An-
thony Freeman; she survived her husband, and
passed away in Brockton, Mass., the mother of
the following children: Elnora F., who mar-
ried Alvin W. Sears, died in Brewster from
injuries received in being thrown from a car-
riage; Ellery Carroll is mentioned below; An-
thony B., born in 1858, died in 1859 ; Louisa,
who married Charles Parker, died in Brockton ;
and Nellie Frances married William Wixon, of
West Brewster, where they reside.
Ellery Carroll Cahoon, president of the
Brockton Board of Trade, one of the trustees
of the People's Savins Bank, director of the
Security Cooperative Bank, senior member of
the firm of Cahoon, Kingman & Swift, public-
spirited, forceful and useful citizen, entered
into rest Aug. 3, 1907, at Norwood, Mass. Mr.
Cahoon was bom Aug. 22, 1853, at East Brew-
ster, Mass., and the public schools of that town
afforded him his means of education. His first
work after leaving school was the driving of the
stage-coach through the town of Dennis, and he
became very well known to the people of that
section. About 1871 he came to North Bridge-
water (now Brockton), and entered the employ
of L. F. Severance, at that time a leading mar-
ket man, and remained there some years. He
then went to Luce & Poole, a firm engaged in
the same line of business, and continued with
them until he went into the wholesale beef
business, forming the firm of Cahoon, King-
man & Swift, a branch of Swift & Co., of Chi-
cago, and this business grew rapidly, expanding
with the broadening of the interests of the town,
and playing an important part therein.
While devoted to the interests of his business,
Mr. Cahoon was a many-sided man, and with-
out neglecting any one thing was able to be
interested in many lines of activity. From the
inception of the Brockton Board of Trade he
was one of its active workers, inspiring others
to greater effort by his enthusiasm, and shortly
before his death had been elected its president.
He was one of the trustees of the People's Sav-
ings Bank, and an officer of the Security Co-
operative Bank. In the Commercial Club he
was an ever-welcome adviser and tireless worker.
He had been active in a garbage disposal scheme
for the city, and at his request an agent of the
Wiselogel Sewerage Disposal Company, of St.
Louis, visited Brockton and explained to the
city officials the system he represented. This
question had engrossed Mr. Gaboon's attention
for some time, and he was on the alert to find
the best practical method for his city*.
Mr. Cahoon was a member of the Porter Con-
gregational Church, and was the senior melh-
ber of the parish committee and collector of the
church. He was a member and at one time a
director of the Brockton Y. M. C. A., and in
the Brockton No-License League he was vigi-
lant and energetic, at all times taking a firm
stand on the side of morality in commercial,
social and municipal life. He was a friend of
humanity — the love of his friends was a marked
characteristic, and his hearty greeting cheered
many a wavering, despondent being. His pres-
ence vibrated sincerity and loyalty, and became
a tonic to those associated with him. He kept
himself pure and sweet amid all the temptations
of life, and no taint of corruption rested upon
him. Large responsibilities and trusts were
confided to him, and his reliability was never
questioned. His square dealing was known to
all his business acquaintances, and the confi-
dence given him' in return was implicit.
To Mr. Cahoon life brought its duties, and
he felt that the day of no man was his own.
Each day, each hour, had its task, and there
were no idle moments. He loved life and its
activity, and he faced each day with the cour-
age and confidence that bespoke his faith — a
faith that questioned not the duties thrust upon
him, but lent strength to their accomplishment.
Mr. Cahoon was prominent in fraternal cir-
cles, being a member in and collector of Brock-
ton Lodge, Knights of Honor ; a member of the
N. E. 0. P. ; Paul Revere Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ;
Satucket Chapter, R. A. M. ; Brockton Council,
R. & S. M. ; and Bay State Commandery, K.
T., Brockton.
On June 16, 1875,. Mr. Cahoon was united
in marriage with Annie C. Johnson, of East
Boston, Mass., daughter of Andrew and Ellen
(Murray) Johnson, both natives of Boston. Two
children were born to them : Edith Louise,
who died aged nine years; and Ellery Carroll,
Jr., who died aged nine months. Mrs. Cahoon
and Mr. Cahoon's sister, Mrs. William Wixon,
of Brewster, survive to mourn his death.
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The funeral services were held at the home,
No. 695 Belmont street, Brockton, and were
simple but impressive. Associates in business
and fraternal life, friends, all were there, Rev.
Dr. Albert Marion Hyde conducted the services,
and the Gerrish quartette sang several selec-
tions. Dr. Hyde said in part:
"Every interest in our community has suf-
fered grievous loss in the death of Ellery C.
Cahoon. The business world in which he has
long stood in such honor, the social circles to
which he always brought much bounding good
cheer, the church interests to which he was al-
ways such a faithful ally, the charitable insti-
tiftions to which he was such a liberal giver,
are all poorer because he has gone out from us.
Active and energetic, always abounding in vi-
tality and good cheer, he has been among our
first and our best in all that counts for the com-
munity and the individual. I do not need to
speak his eulogy. The eulogy of such a char-
acter is never spoken. Not the words but the
works which follow him will be his memorial
monument. Through all the record of our
brother's life four great words are shining, in-
tegrity, industry, friendship, faith _• .
We can say of him as Whittier said of Agassiz :
"As thiu mists are glorified,
By the light they cannot hide.
All who gazed upon him saw,
Through its veil of tender awe,
How his face was still uplit
By the old sweet look of it;
Hopeful, trustful, full «f cheer,
And the love that casts out fear."
The directors of the Security Cooperative
Bank, at their meeting held in Brockton Sept.
19, 1907, adopted resolutions as follows :
Whebeas, the dark Angel, whose wings ever spread
in flight summoning our friends and loved ones
to the eternal and invisible beyond, has paused to
deliver his dread message to Ellery Carroll Ca-
hoon, our friend, companion and co-worker, and
Whereas, in the sudden answer to the summons we
are brought to realize how strong a character and
how noble a man has been removed from among
us, leaving a place vacant and calling for some
one to step from the ranks of thoughtless toil
and, in his stead, administer relief to the
distressed and comfort to the afflicted;
Be It Resolved, that in his death the Security Co-
operative Bank and the community at large have
suffered a loss that is severely felt ; that in the
twenty-four years that he has been a member of
this institution, thirteen years as a director and
four years as a vice president, he has performed
service to the bank and to the community that
will be of lasting benefit; that the kindly smile,
hearty handshake, and cheery word of Ellery
Carroll Cahoon have been blessings to us all, and
we are called upon to turn from the considera^
-tion of our own condition and affairs to offer our
deepest sympathy to his bereaved family in the
loss sustained.
(Signed)
Grant D. Anthony,
Samtiei. Goodwin,
B. B. WiNSLOW,
Committee.
BLACKSTONE (Bridgewater family). The
name Blackstone (early written Blaxton) is a
very ancient one in Massachusetts and the fam-
ily later a most respectable and honored one
in the ancient towns of Branford and Nor-
wich, in Connecticut, descendants of that New
England pioneer and Boston-Eehoboth settler,
William Blackstone. And at Bridgewater, this
Commonwealth, in that ancient Plymouth Col-
ony town, the name and family have stood not
less conspicuously, reference being made to
Hollis M. Blackstone, the head of the Bridge-
water family, who for upward of twenty-five
years, as superintendent, has had the manage-
ment of the State farm at that place.
William Blackstone, the pioneer, is supposed
to have been a graduate of Emanuel College,
Cambridge, in 1617, and a clergyman of the
Church of England. He left there because
of a dislike of the Lords Bishops. He was
probably of Robert George's party, who made
settlement in 1623 at Weymouth. About 1623
he moved from Plymouth to the peninsula of
Shawmut, where Boston was afterward built,
and was living there alone when Governor Win-
throp arrived at Charlestown in 1630. Black-
stone went to Winthrop, told him of an ex-
cellent spring at Shawmut, and invited him
thither. The Governor and the greater part
of the church accepted this invitation. The
land, although Blackstone had occupied it first,
belonged to the Governor and company, and on
April 1, 1633, they gave him fifty acres, near
his house, "to enjoy forever." He sold his es-
tate in 1634, purchased cattle with the pro-
ceeds of his sale and m that or the subsequent
year removed to Rehoboth, and was the firs'
permanent white settler there. His locatic
there was on the banks of the Blackstone (nr
in the town of Cumberland, R. I.) and vr.>
called by him "Sturdy Hill." It is said t
he .planted the first orchard in Massachus' .-r?,
and also the first in Rhode Island.
On July 4, 1659, Mr. Blackstone marr;?'^!
Sarah Stephenson, widow of John. He l^od
May 26, 1675, and she in June, 1673. '"i?
family name has been perpetuated throv vh hin
only son, John Blackstone, a resident o:^ } ■ '
both, Mass., Providence, R. I., Attleborc "■ n ■
and Branford, Conn. John Blacksto >• ■
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561
ried a woman whose Christian name was Cath-
erine. Soon after going to Branford, it is
thought, Mr. Blackstone went to sea and fol-
lowed the occupation of a seafaring man for
a number of years, becoming master and owner
of a vessel, and carried on trade with the
West Indies. Subsequently he became a farmer
in Branford and the proprietor of a large
landed estate which for generations has been
handed down from father to son. Through the
second John and only child, so far as ascer-
tained, have descended the distinguished Bran-
ford and Branford- Norwich (Conn.) lines of
Blackstones, the especial worthies being Capt.
James Blackstone and his sons Hon. Lorenzo
and Timothy B. Blackstone. Capt. James
Blackstone, a farmer of Branford, for a time
during the war of 1813, in command of a
company, did coast guard duty. He served his
town as assessor and selectman, was its repre-
sentative in the State Assembly, and his dis-
trict in the Senate; Lorenzo Blackstone was
for nearly a third of a century prominently
identified with the manufacturing interests of
Connecticut, one of the leading citizens of
Norwich, for some thirty years president of one
of the banks there, for years the city's honored
mayor and its representative in both the lower
house and Senate of the General Assembly of
Connecticut; while the late Timothy B. Black-
stone, who had left the East nearly fifty years
before his death, and at the latter time was a
resident of Chicago, for some thirty years
managed with consvmomate skill the affairs of
the most successful of all the great railways of
the West, and was best known as president of
the Chicago & Alton Eailway Company. Tim-
othy B. Blackstone was the donor of the hand-
some and costly library at Branford, Conn.,
which is styled "The James Blackstone Memo-
rial Library." This building he had erected,
and provided an endowment for the mainte-
nance of the library, in memory of his father.
It is thought that the Maine branch of the
Blackstone family, from which descends Hollis
M. Blackstone, superintendent of the Massa-
chusetts State farm in Bridgewater, springs
from William Blackstone, the pioneer and Bos-
ton settler. One Benjamin Blackstone was
among those whose right in the common lands
of the town of Falmouth, Maine, under pro-
vision of Governor Danforth, was acknowledged
in May, 1730, his name being of record there
in this connection, in the month and year
named. Varney Blackstone, M. D., father of
Hollis M., was a practicing physician of Free-
dom, Maine, where his death occurred when he
was aged forty-one years. His wife, formerly
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Julia Lamson, like himself a native of Maine,
was a daughter of James Lamson, who was a
pensioner of the war of 1812, and for many
years a deacon of the Baptist Church. She is
still living, now (1910) in her ninetieth year,
and makes her home with her son, Hollis M.
Five children were born to Dr. Blackstone and
his wife, namely: Francis Lamson, who died
young; William, who died aged nineteen years;
HoUis M. ; John Milton, who died young ; and
Euphemia, who married Ellis H. Walker, who
is engaged in farming in Rehoboth, Massachu-
setts.
Hollis M. Blackstone, left fatherless at
the age of six, was early thrown upon his own
resources, practically so when twelve years of
age. Through persistent efforts he acquired an
academic education, and after completing his
education taught school for some time. He
lived in his native State until reaching the age
of twenty-two, and, subsequently taking up his
residence in Boston, he in 1873 was appointed
to a clerkship at' the city institution on Deer
island. He continued in that position until
1877, when he was chosen superintendent of
the Marcella Street Home, conducted by the
city of Boston, and located at the Highlands.
In 1883 he was the choice of the board of
trustees for the superintendency of the State
farm in Bridgewater, and that he has fully
displayed the competency and fidelity expected
of him is amply attested by his long tenure of
office. This institution has three separate de-
partments : the workhouse, to which are sen-
tenced habitual inebriates, tramps, vagrants,
and ic"o and disorderly persons; the State alms-
house, which is a retreat for the sick and in-
firm poor of southeastern Massachusetts; and
the asylum for insane criminals. The State
farm of 1,200 acres is beautifully and health-
fully located, and its present handsome struc-
tures of brick, stone and concrete, which re-
placed the former wooden buildings destroyed
by fire on July 2, 1883, are models as to thor-
oughness of construction and completeness in
every detail. The conflagration, which de-
stroyed the old buildings, occurred the day
after Mr. Blackstone took charge of the insti-
tution; and the architectural plans and speci-
fications for the present buildings were all
planned in detail by him ; this was the pioneer
venture in this State in the use of reinforced
concrete in the construction of buildings. The
present management is accomplishing the work
for which it is intended in a most satisfactory
manner, and the superintendent is exceedingly
popular with all parties interested in the wel-
fare of the institution. The excellent results
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obtained at the farm are due mainly to his
executive ability and thorough knowledge of
the work, and in all probability his continuance
in office is optional with himself. When he
took charge of the State farm but 157 persons
were inmates of the same, while now this in-
stitution takes care of an average of 2,400 the
year round. Included in his duties at the
State farm are those of postmaster.
In his political affiliations Mr. Blackstone
is a Republican. He was for years a member
of the Bridgewater school board and for seven-
teen years its president. He belongs to Fellow-
ship Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Bridgewater,
and to the Royal Arch Chapter, of Bridgewater,
and is a member of the Unitarian Church, at
Bridgewater.
On Feb. 8, 1877, Mr. Blackstone married
Sarah F. Roberts, of Brooks, Maine, daughter
of Alfred Roberts, and the union has been
blessed with these children : Alfred Varney ;
Helen Monroe, who was educated in the local
schools and Bradford Academy, and is now the
wife of Frank H. Carlisle, M. D., of the Fox-
boro (Mass.) State Hospital; and Nellie, who
died young.
Alfeed Varney Blackstone, M. D., only
son of Hollis M., was educated in the public
and high schools of Bridgewater, after which,
in 1899, he entered Brown University, gradua-
ting therefrom in 1903, and later taking a course
at Harvard Medical College, graduating from
the latter in the class of 1907, with the de-
gree of M. D. He then went to Europe, and
took a post-graduate course at Dublin Hospital,
Dublin, Ireland, after which he became ship
surgeon on the Nelson Line, sailing to South
America. He is now located at Absarokee,
Mont., where he is practicing his profession.
He is unmarried.
DAVIS (Plymouth family). If is the pur-
pose of this article to set forth in chronological
order and briefly from the earliest known
American ancestor a line of the Davis family
that has been conspicuous in the annals of Ply-
mouth and, beyond* the town, in those of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Reference is
made especially to Thomas Davis, the first of
the family at Plymouth, who was one of the
leading ship owners and prominent business
men of his time in the town ; to his sons Hon.
Thomas Davis, long one of the leading public
men of Plymouth and of the Commonwealth,
serving in high public station in each; Hon.
John Davis, a graduate of Harvard, lawyer and
judge^ member of the Constitutional conven-
tion, etc.; Isaac P. Davis, Esq., for years one
of the most extensive manufacturers of Boston;
Hon. Wendell Davis, a graduate of Harvard,
lawyer, high sheriff of Barnstable county, etc.;
and William Davis, Esq., who succeeded his
father in navigation and the merchant service;
and in succeeding generations to the late Hon.
Charles Gideon Davis, a graduate of Harvard,
lawyer and judge and man of affairs; to the
latter's brother, the late Hon. William Thomas
Davis, also a graduate of Harvard, lawyer, his-
torian, and prominent public official; and to
their sons, respectively, Charles S., lawyer, now
active and prominent in the professional life
of his section, president of one and director
of two Plymouth banks; and Howland Davis,
member of the firm of Blake Brothers, New
York and Boston, and who has his summer
home at Long Pond, Plymouth.
And it will be noted further along that this
line of the Plymouth Davis family have an
allied connection in the beginning with a de-
scendant of Evert Jansen Wendel, a native of
the city of Embden, East Friesland (now Han-
over); on the confines of the United Provinces
of Holland, who came thence in 1640 to New
Netherlands in America under the Dutch West
India Company and became a resident of New
Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan, the
present site of the city of New York ; and from
whom have descended the Massachusetts family
of the name, including the late eminent Wendell
Phillips and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(I) Thomas Davis came from England and
was at Albany. He is believed to have been a
descendant of Robert Davis of Plymouth. He
married Catherine Wendell, and removed to the
State of North Carolina about 1730. Their
children were: Robert, born in 1708; John;
Catherine, born in 1714, who married John
Creecy, of North Carolina; Thomas, born in
1738; David, born in 1724; Benjamin, and
Miles.
The Wendell family is of Germanic origin
and of great respectability. The coat of arms,
which has the device of a ship under full sail
and two anchors, and which was stained on nine
panes of glass in the east window of the old
Dutch church at Albany, demolished in 1805,
and the matrimonial alliances which they
formed among tlie Van Rensselaer, De Key and
Steats families indicate their high social stand-
ing (Rev. Elias Nason in New England Histori-
cal and Genealogical Register, Vol. XXII, page
420).
(II) Thomas Davis (2), son of Thomas and
Catherine (Wendell) Davis, born in 1722, came
to Plymouth in 1737 for the purpose of being
educated under the care of Elkanah Morton.
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563
He married in 1753 Mercy, born in 1734,
daughter of Barnabas Hedge and his wife
Mercy (Barnes-Cole), he a direct descendant
of William Hedge of Lynn, 1634, and afterward
of Sandwich and Yarmouth, through Elisha
Hedge and his wife Mary, and John Hedge and
his wife Thankful (Lothrop), of Barnstable.
Mr. Davis was a soldier in the expedition
against Louisburg. After his return he engaged
in navigation, conducting a large trade with
the West Indies, Spain, France and along the
shores of the Mediterranean sea, being one of
the leading ship owners and prominent busi-
ness men of the then busy town of Plymouth.
In 1782 one of the vessels, the schooner "Har-
mony," commanded by Nathaniel Carver, was
overhauled and captured by Horatio Nelson,
afterward Lord Nelson, the noted English ad-
miral, and the captain was held as prisoner,
being compelled to pilot the English ship
through comparatively unknown and intricate
passages out of the way of the French fleet
which put out from Boston for its capture.
Once safe from the French Nelson put the cap-
tain ashore. In the possession of the Davis
family is Nelson's certificate of capture and re-
lease of the ship and his signature to it is the
only known autograph of Nelson in this coun-
try. The children of Thomas and Mercy
(Hedge) Davis were: Sarah, born in 1754,
who married LeBaron Bradford, of Bristol, E.
I., son of William Bradford, the latter at one
time United States senator from Ehode Island ;
Thomas, born in 1756; William, born in 1758;
John, born in 1761; Samuel, born in 1765;
Isaac P., born in 1771; and Wendell, born in
1776. Of these sons,
(III) Thomas Davis was a representative
from Plymouth, senator from Plymouth county,
senator from Suffolk county, treasurer and re-
ceiver general of the Commonwealth from 1792
to 1797, and president of the Boston Marine
Insurance Company from 1799 until his death,
Jan. 21, 1805.
(Ill) John Davis was graduated from Har-
vard in 1781, and entered the legal profession.
He was the youngest member of the convention
on the adoption of the State constitution, and
in 1796 was appointed by Washington comp-
troller of the United States treasury. In 1801
he was appointed, by John Adams, judge of the
United States court for the district of Massa-
chusetts, and continued on the bench forty
years. He was treasurer of Harvard College
from 1810 to 1827. fellow of Harvard from
1803 to 1810, and president of the Massachu-
setts Historical Society from 1818 to 1843. He
died in Boston Jan. 14, 1847.
(Ill) Samuel Davis was a well-known anti-
quarian, a learned linguist, and a recognized
authority on questions relating to Indian dia-
lects. He was a member of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, recipient of an honorary de-
gree from Harvard in 1819, and died in Ply-
mouth July 10, 1829.
(Ill) Isaac P. Davis was for many years an
extensive manufacturer in Boston, owning a
rope walk on the mill dam, now Beacon street,
and perhaps was more widely known in Boston,
than any other man of his time. He was a
friend of artists and a patron of art, whose
judgment and taste were freely consulted by
purchasers. Stuart, the portrait painter, was
his intimate friend, as was Webster, who dedi-
cated a volume of his speeches to him.
(Ill) Wendell Davis was graduated from
Harvard in 1796, was clerk of the Massachu-
setts Senate from 1802 to 1805. He studied
the law with his brother John, and settled in
Sandwich. He served by appointment of the gov-
ernor as sheriff of Barnstable county. He was
the father of Hon. George T. Davis, of Green-
field, whom Thackeray declared the most bril-
liant conversationalist he had ever met.
(Ill) William Davis, son of Thomas and
Mercy (Hedge) Davis, born July 15, 1758,
married in 1781 Eebecca, born in 1762, daugh-
ter of Nathaniel and Eebecca (Jackson) Mor-
ton, and a direct descendant of George Morton,
of Yorkshire, England, who early joined the
Pilgrims in Leyden, Holland, and sailed with
his wife and five children in the "Ann," the
third and last ship to carry what are distinc-
tively known as the Forefathers, and reached
Plymouth early in June, 1623, from whom her
descent is through Ephraim and Ann (Cooper),
Nathaniel and Mary (Faunce), Nathaniel (2)
and Meriah (Clark) and Nathaniel (3) and
Eebecca (Jackson). Mr. Davis was trained in
the business of his father, who was largely en-
gaged in navigation and foreign trade, and,
after the death of his father, March 7, 1785, he
continued the business of the firm of Thomas
& William Davis with marked success until his
death. He was a representative to the General
Court of Massachusetts, a member of the execu-
tive council, and for twenty-five years a mem-
ber of the board of selectmen of Plymouth. It
is worthy in this connection to note that in
this line the services of four generations of
the Davis family as selectmen cover a period
of fifty-two years. Mr. Davis was one of the
founders of the Plymouth Bank, and its presi-
flent until his death, and one of the founders
of the Pilgrim Society and its first vice presi-
dent. After his death, Jan. 5, 1826, his widow
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continued to occupy the family mansion until
1830, when she removed to Boston, where she
died April 1, 1847. The cliildren of William
and Eebecca (Morton) Davis were: William,
born in 1783; Nathaniel, born in 1785;
Thomas, born in 1791; and Elizabeth, born in
1803 (married Alexander Bliss and George
Bancroft, Mr. Bliss being the law partner of
Daniel Webster and Bancroft the eminent his-
torian).
(IV) William Davis (2), son of William and
Eebecca (Morton) Davis, born in 1783, married
in 1807 Joanna, daughter of Capt. Gideon
White, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, an officer in
the English army, and a direct descendant of
William White of the "Mayflower," 1620. Mr.
Davis was for a period associated in business
with his father. He died at the comparatively
early age of forty-one years, March 22, 1824.
The children of William and Joanna (White)
Davis were : William Whitworth, born in 1808 ;
Eebecca, born in 1810, who married Ebenezer
Grosvenor Parker and George S. Tolman ; Han-
nah White, born in 1812, who married Andrew
L. Eussell; Sarah Bradford, born in 1814;
Charles Gideon, born in 1820 ; William Thomas,
born in 1822; and Sarah Elizabeth, born in
1824.
(V) Charles Gideon Davis, son of William
and Joanna (White) Davis, was born May 30,
1820, in the house now known as Plymouth
Eock House on Cole's Hill, in Plymouth, Mass.,
and died July 2, 1903. He acquired his ele-
mentary education in the home schools and in
a private school at Hingham, Mass.; furthered
his studies in the Plymouth high school, and
was prepared for college under the direction of
Hon. John A. Shaw of Bridgewater. Entering
Harvard College he was graduated therefrom
with the class of 1840. He was prepared for
the law under the direction of Hon. Jacob H.
Loud, of Plymouth, Messrs. Hubbard & Watt,
of Boston, and at the Harvard Law School. He
was admitted at the August term of the Com-
mon Pleas court, Plymouth, 1843, and located
in Boston for the practice of his profession,
where for a decade he was engaged in an active
and increasing practice, in partnership at vari-
ous times with William H. Whitman, George P.
Sanger, who was a member of his class at Har-
vard, and Seth Webb, also of Harvard, of the
class of 1843. In the early fifties, owing to
bronchial trouble, he deemed it was best to leave
Boston, so relinquished his practice there and
retired to his native town, where he ever after-
ward resided, adding to his professional pur-
suits the vocation of operating in real estate,
in which he exhibited a degree of public spirit
and enterprise by which the town was largely
benefited. On his return from Boston to Ply-
mouth he purchased a farm on the outskirts of
the town and built thereon the house in which
he continued to make his home the remainder
of his years. In 1854 he built the Davis build-
ing, the brick block at the corner of Eailroad
avenue in 1870, and for many years was the
largest individual holder of real estate in the
town.
While a resident of Boston and scarcely be-
yond his majority young Davis espoused the
cause of the slave and became one of the organ-
izers of the Free-soil party, in 1848. He was
one of the numerous persons arrested and tried
in 1851 for participation in the rescue of Shad-
rach, the fugitive slave. The charge was that
he was entering the court room, Shadrach was
going out, and that he held the door in such
a way as to make the escape effectual. On this
point said his brother, the late William T.
Davis, "though he was acquitted, I never knew
how much or how little, if at all, he aided the
negro in his flight." He with others, among
them the afterward war governor of Massachu-
setts, John A. Andrew, and F. W. Bird, op-
posed the reelection to Congress of Eobert C.
Winthrop, and offered in Faneuil Hall the reso-
lution which first nominated Charles Sumner
for that honor. In 1863, the year in which he
changed his residence to Plymouth, he was a
delegate from Plymouth to the Constitutional
convention. In 1856 he was appointed a mem-
ber of the State board of agriculture (sustain-
ing that relation until 1877) and in the same
year chosen president of the Plymouth County
Agricultural Society, retaining the latter ofiBce
until resigning in the year 1876. In 1856 he
was one of three delegates from Massachusetts
to the convention at Pittsburg at which the Ee-
publican party was organized ; was a delegate
from the First Massachusetts district to the
convention at Philadelphia in 1856, which put
John C. Fremont in nomination for president,
and to the convention at Cincinnati, in 1872,
which nominated Horace Greeley for the same
office. In 1859 he was chosen an overseer of
Harvard University for five years. In 1861
he was appointed by Governor Andrew on a
commission to propose a plan for a State agri-
cultural college, and after the establishment of
that institution served as one of its trustees
many years. In 1862 he represented Plymouth
in the General Court and in that same year was
appointed under the United States revenue law
assessor for the First district, holding that office
until 1869. In 1874 he was appointed Judge of
the Third District court, and remained on the
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565
bench until his death. And during these vari-
ous official rela'^ns and vocations Mr. Davis
steadily followed his profession and in a num-
ber of civil and criminal cases of importance
he acquitted liimself with acknowledged ability
and substantial success.
On Nov. 19, 1845, Judge Davis married Han-
nah Stevenson, who was born Feb. 25, 1821,
daughter of Col. John B. and Mary (LeBaron)
Thomas, the former at the time clerk of the
courts of Plymouth county. Mrs. Davis died
Nov. 7, 1900. Four children were born to this
marriage, namely: Charles Howland, born in
1853, who died soon; Joanna, born in 1856,
who married Eichard H. Morgan; Charles
Stevenson, born in 1858; and Edward, born in
1860, now deceased.
(VI) Charles Stevenson Davis, son of the
late Judge Charles Gideon Davis, was born in
Plymouth Jan. 1, 1858. He received his early
education in the public schools there and at
Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass., after which he
entered Harvard, from which university he was
graduated with the class of 1880. He then took
up the study of law in the ofBce of Bacon, Hop-
kins & Bacon, of Worcester, Mass., and was ad-
mitted to the bar of this State in 1882. That
year he entered upon another experience which
has proved valuable to him, becoming private
secretary to Justice John M. Harlan, of the
United States Supreme court, at Washington,
D. C. He then began legal practice in his na-
tive place, soon afterward, however, opening an
office in Boston, where he has been practicing,
most successfully, for many years. Meantime,
however, he has continued to make his home at
Plymouth, and though his legal interests have
centered in Boston he has always continued to
be thoroughly identified with his home city, as
his numerous relations with the life of the com-
munity testify. He is associate justice of the
Third District court of Plymouth county;
counsel for the town of Plymouth and other
towns; president of the Plymouth Savings
Bank; director of the Old Colony National
Bank; president of the Jordan hospital board;
a trustee of the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth,
and a director of numerous manufacturing and
railway corporations. He has filled a number
of municipal offices, among others that of select-
man, and he was chairman of the board. He
is a stanch Democrat in political opinion.
On June 30, 1886, Mr. Davis married Lydia
Eussell, daughter of the late John J. and Mary
(Danforth) Russell, the latter still surviving.
Mrs. Davis died in 1910, the mother of three
children, Charles Stevenson, Jr., Eussell, and
Helen, the daughter dying in infancy.
(V) William T. Davis, son of William and
Joanna (White) Davis, was born March 3,
1823, in Plymouth, Mass., and in the town of
his nativity and illustrious ancestors was passed
in main his long and useful life; and with its
affairs, with its people and its' institutions, with
the history from the time of the landing of the
Pilgrim Fathers, none other was so familiar.
He was fitted for college at the Plymouth high
school, entered Harvard University, and was
graduated therefrom with the class of 1842.
Descending from forefathers of achievement,
from a liberally educated family, it was but nat-
ural that he determined on entering one of the
learned professions, hence he chose that of
medicine, and for a time prosecuted his studies
in that direction in the University of Pennsyl-
vania, then continued his studies for a year in
Europe. A change came upon him, and on his
return from abroad he switched ofE onto the
law, studying first for a time under the direc-
tion of lus brother Charles G. (whom it will
be noticed became a lawyer of eminence and a
man of distinction, at that time in Boston),
after which he furthered his preparation at the
Harvard Law School. Mr. Davis was admitted
to the bar of Suffolk county Nov. 9, 1849, and
in the city of Boston began the practice of his
chosen profession. There he continued to suc-
cessfully prosecute the practice of law with zeal
for several years, but conditions brought about
another change in the course of his life, and
in 1853 he returned to his native town, where
he engaged in business, and soon became one
of the substantial men and valuable citizens of
Plymouth.
Of scholarly attainments and of literary
tastes, Mr. Davis in time drifted into literary
work, and became the recognized historian of
his section, an acknowledged authority on the
history and genealogy of Ancient Plymouth,
which meant practically southeastern Massa-
chusetts. Among his writings and publications
are 'TSistory of Plymouth," "Ancient Land-
marks of Plymouth," "History of Newburyport,
Massachusetts," "Historical Sketches of Some
Massachusetts Towns," and "History of the
Bench and Bar of Massachusetts." He also
edited the "Plymouth Town Eecords" (two vol-
umes) and the "History of the New England
States" (three volumes). And this sort of
work, for which he was so admirably fitted,
brought him in demand for addresses and lec-
tures along these lines and those akin to them,
and on various public occasions not historical
he also delivered many addresses.
It goes without saying that Mr. Davis was
prominent in the public affairs of the com-
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munity, the welfare of which he had always at
heart. He was an efficient member of the board
of selectmen of Plymouth for a great mapy
years, serving many times as its chairman. He
was first chosen selectman in 1855, and was
chairman of the board in 1856, so continuing
until the spring of 1866, when he declined fur-
ther service. In 1870 and 1881 he was again
chosen, but declined; he was again chosen in
1888, 1889 and 1890, serving the last year as
chairman. He also acted as moderator of the
town for seventy-nine times. He served as
a member of the school committee for a num-
ber of years; in 1858 and 1859 he was State sen-
ator from the Plymouth district. As a Eepub-
lican he was a Presidential elector from
Massachusetts in 1872; he was a delegate from
his State to the Republican National convention
held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1876, at which
Rutherford B. Hayes received the nomination
for the presidency of the United States. In
1895 he was made chairman of the Old Colony
Commission ; and was chairman for fifteen years
or more of the First Parish Unitarian com-
mittee. He was for years president of the Pil-
grim Society, and a trustee of that organization.
And in commercial lines he was for twenty years
or more president of the Plymouth National
Bank, and for a time president of the Plymouth
Gas Company. Mr. Davis also performed valu-
able service to his State and country during the
Civil war. On behalf of the Plymouth Bank, of
which he was president, he offered Gov. John
A. Andrew the use of $20,000 as a contribution
to an emergency fund to meet expenditures
which must at once be made. He also did much
toward relieving suffering among the families
of soldiers. He was also chosen by Governor
Andrew to visit the Massachusetts troops in the
field upon several occasions, and to report to
him their condition, sanitary and otherwise,
with the view of allaying the anxieties of sol-
diers' families, looking to the comfort of the
wounded soldiers in the hospitals, etc. His
work in this line resulted in preventing much
suffering and sickness among the Massachusetts
troops, and although he experienced many hard-
ships his first thought was the comfort of the
soldiers in the field, as well as the assistance
which he rendered to soldiers' families at home.
In 1849 Mr. Davis married Abby Burr, who
was born in 1826, daughter of Thomas Hedge
and his wife Lydia (Coffin), the former a direct
descendant of William Hedge, of Lynn, Mass.,
in 1634, and later of Sandwich and Yarmouth,
through Elisha, of Yarmouth; John, of that
same town; Barnabas; Barnabas (2) ; and Bar-
nabas Hedge (3).
To Mr. and Mrs. William T. Davis w'ere born
the following children : AbH^ Warren, born
March 24, 1854, who married Alexander Jack-
son, of Boston; Howland, born July 28, 1855,
mentioned below; Katherine Wendell, born
March 2, 1859 ; and Alice Whitworth, born Dec.
13, 1864, who married Dr. Henry R. Hitch-
cock, now of Plymouth. The mother of these
children died in Plymouth in August, 1895,
and the father passed away Dec. 2, 1907, both
being laid to rest in Oak Grove cemetery.
(VI) Howland Davis, only son of the late
William T. and Abby Burr (Hedge) Davis,
was born in Plymouth, Mass., July 28, 1855,
and began his education in the local district
schools. He later attended the high school, and
also a business college in Boston, after which
he became a clerk with the banking and broker-
age firm of Blake Brothers & Co., of New York
and Boston, with which firm he has since been
associated. After ten years of faithful service
he acquired an interest in the business, and has
been a member of the firm for a number of
years. His office is in Exchange Place, New
York. Mr. Davis has, however, maintained his
interest in his old home town, and he and his
family spend the summer seasons at Long Pond,
in Plymouth, where he has a beautiful home.
Mr. Davis is a prominent member and a trustee
of the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth. He is also
a member of the General Society of Mayflower
Descendants, of which he was elected governor
general in 1909 ; and is also a member of the
New England Society in the City of New York,
which was founded in 1805, and of which he
was elected president in 1910. His achieve-
ments have been worthy of the family to which
he belongs, and although he has devoted prac-
tically all of his time to his business interests,
departing somewhat from the traditions of his
forefathers, his success has been so noteworthy
as to reflect honor on the name.
On June 3, 1885, Mr. Davis was united in
marriage to Anna Shippen, daughter of the
late William W. Shippen, of New Jersey, and
to this union have been born the following
children : Howland S. ; Hester L. ; Ruth G. ;
Anna, who died young ; William Shippen ; Sybil
W. ; Wendell, and Katherine.
DENISON (New Bedford family). The
Denisons of New Bedford — the families of the
two brothers, Henry C. and the late John H.
Denison, long engaged together in business here
under the firm style of Denison Brothers and
the Denison Brothers Company, among the
leading business men and substantial citizens
of the city — represent ancient and most re-
spectable New England stock.
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567
The birthplace and home of these Denison
brothers and of their father, Daniel Denison,
was in the to^vn of Hartland, Vt. ; their mother,
Pamelia Lathrop • Head, was a native of the
State of New Hampshire, born at Franconia.
Hartland is one of the Vermont towns which
has a frontage on the Connecticut river, and
was first settled in May, 1763, the date fixed
as that of the removal thither of Timothy Lull
and family. Later on is found the family there
of George Denison,' comprising, according to
the first United States census, 1790, six in allj
including its head, who in 1789 is credited with
being the representative from Hartland in the
State Assembly; and still later, in the years
1842 and 1843, Daniel Denison represented the
town in the same body. These men were kins-
men, father and son. They were a branch of
the old Denison family of Stonington, Conn.
And other branches of the same stock and from
Stonington were then living at different points
in Vermont. David Denison, from Stonington,
Conn., a patriot and officer of the Eevolution,
who removed to New London, Conn., then in
1785 to the State of New Hampshire, finally
settled in Guilford, Vt., where he was a resident
at the time of the taking of the first United
States census in 1790. His wife was formerly
Keziah Smith, of Groton, Conn. William Deni-
son, from Stonington, also removed to Vermont,
as did a number of other families from that
town.
This New England Denison family was origi-
nally from Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire,
England, the name there being variously
spelled as Denyson, Dennyson, etc.
Capt. George Denison, the Stonington settler
and ancestor of the George Denison who re-
moved to Hartland, Vt., was baptized Dec. 10,
1620, at Stratford, England, son of William and
Margaret (Chandler, Monck) Denison, and
grandson of John Denyson and his wife Agnes
of Stratford (Stortford). He .came to New
England with his father and family in 1631,
the family settling in Roxbury, where the par-
ents lived and died. The son, George, who
had been bred at Cambridge, England, married
about 1640 Bridget Thompson, daughter of
John Thompson, gentleman, and his wife Alice,
of Northamptonshire, England. She died in
1643, leaving children Sarah and Hannah. Cap-
tain Denison then returned to England and
married Ann Borodell, and again came to New
England in 1645, taking up his abode in Eox-
bury. There he lived until 1651, when he re-
moved with his family to Connecticut, locating
at New London, thence removing in 1654 to
Stonington, where he continued to reside until
his death, though it occurred at Hartland in
1694. He won distinction in both civil and
military life.
Prom this Capt. George Denison the lineage
of George Denison, the Hartland (Vt.) settler,
is through Capt. William Denison (1655-1715)
and his wife Sarah Stanton Prentice (1655-
1713) ; William Denison (1687-1724) and his
wife Mercy Gallup (1690-1724) ; and Benadam
Denison, of Stonington, Connecticut.
George Denison, son of Benadam, was born
Oct. 8, 1751, in Stonington, Conn. He removed
to Hartland, Vt., where he became a prominent
man and was called Col. George Denison. He
married there Jan. 9, 1772, Theody Brown,
born May 9, 1752, daughter of Nathan and
Lydia (Dewey) Brown, and a direct descend-
ant of Thomas Brown, of Lynn, Mass. He
married (second) in Northfield, Mass., Feb. 12,
1804, Submit Lyman, born July 11, 1767. To
the first marriage were born: Benadam, born
at Stonington, Conn., July 11, 1773; Jonathan,
born at Stonington April 26, 1775; Sarah, born
at Stonington May 3, 1777; George Washing-
ton, born at Hartland, Vt., Oct. 16, 1779;
Amos, born at Hartland April 27, 1782;
Theody, born at Hartland June 27, 1784 ; Anne,
born at Hartland Dec. 2, 1785; Mason, bom at
Hartland March 18, 1788; Lucy, born June 15,
1790; and Daniel, born at Hartland May 15,
■1794 (died Jan. 21, 1861). To the second
marriage was born one son, Charles.
Daniel Denison, son of Col. George, born
May 15, 1794, died Jan. 21, 1861. On April
8, 1827, at Hartland, Vt., he married Pamelia
Lathrop Head, born Jan. ^22, 1801. Their chil-
dren were: Daniel Borodell, bom Jan. 1, 1828;
Pamelia Submit, born March 19, 1830; George,
born Nov. 24, 1831 ; John Head, born Aug. 29,
1833; Mary Ann, born April 30, 1835; Helen
Jane, born April 18, 1837; and Henry Clay,
born May 18, 184i, who married April 9, 1878,
Emma Frances Dewey, of Quechee, Vt. (no
children).
John Head Denison, son of Daniel and
Pamelia Lathrop (Head) Denison, was born at
Hartland, Vt., and when a young man came in
1852 to New Bedford, entering the employ of
Shaw & Whitridge, in the grain business. In
1858, with Joseph B. Warner, he established a
flouring mill at the corner of South Water and
School streets, and conducted this with success.
In 1864 Henry C. Denison and Burrage Y.
Warner were admitted to the firm. From that
time down to within a few years of his death
the business was conducted by the Denisona,
'though with some changes in the firm name and
style. From 1871 the firm comprised only the
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Messrs. Denison, until in 1896 they sold out to
H. M. Plmnmer, and the Denison-Plummer
Company was organized. The firm did an ex-
tensive flouring business until Western compe-
tition forced tlie Eastern manufacturers out of
the field. During a large part of the time the
firm also managed the large mill at the foot of
Hillman street, and the two plants were con-
sidered of the largest in this section of the
country. Mr. Denison also became a member
of and heavy stockliolder in the Denison Broth-
ers Company when it was organized for the coal
trade, though he did not enter actively into the
corporation management. At one time he was
prominent in public affairs. He was a Eepub-
lican in politics. He was a member of the Pro-
tecting Society in 1884 and 1885, and served
as councilman in 1869 and 1870. In early life
he was deeply interested in musical affairs, and
for some years was a member of the Unitarian
Church choir. He died at his home in New
Bedford April 25, 1899, aged sixty-five years,
eight months.
On May 27, 1862, Mr. Denison married
Louise A., daughter of Hon. John and Jane
Frances (Foster) Porter, of Hartford, Vt. To
this union were born children as follows : Jane
Frances, born June 6, 1865, married Arthur L.
Tucker, and has children, Charles, Henry D.,
and Frederick; John Porter, born Oct. 19, 1868,
married Emma Retching Wilkinson, and re-
sides in Chicago; May Louise, born Nov. 25,
1872, married Dr. Charles A. Pratt; Helen
Pamelia, born March 7, 1875, married Eev.
Smith 0. Dexter, of Concord, Mass., and they
have children, Helen^ Smith 0., Jr., and Lewis.
John Poetee, father of Mrs. Louise A.
(Porter) Denison, was a native of Hartford,
Vt., and lived a long, prominent and useful life
there. He was born April 8, 1798, son of Wil-
liam and Mary (Hodges) Porter, and a direct
descendant of John Porter, who was bom at
Wruxall Abbey, near Kenilworth, County of
Warwick, England, and sailed from London
for America in the "Ann," accompanied by Eose
Porter, his wife, and their children, arriving at
Dorchester May 30, 1627, thence in 1635 going
to Windsor, Conn. According to Henry D.
White, of New Haven, Conn., Mr. Porter came
with his wife and nine children from Felsted,
County of Essex, England, probably in the ship
"Susan and Ellen," in 1638, with wife Anna
White, of Messing, born July 13, 1600, daugh-
ter of Eobert White, of Messing, and his wife
Bridget Allegar, of Stratford, County of
Essex, England. Mr. Porter had a grant of
land at Windsor, where he was a man of prom-
inence, holding a number of public offices,
among them that of deputy, serving- as such in
1646 and 1647. Through his son Samuel
Porter and his wife Hannah Stanley, she of
Hartford, Conn., and their son John (born in
1666), who married and settled in Lebanon,
Conn., came the Lebanon and Hebron branch
of the family.
William Porter, father of Hon. John Porter,
of Hartford, Vt., was a native of Lebanon,
Conn., born Sept. 4, 1749. He removed to
Hartford, Vt., in 1780, and afterward married
Mary Hodges, and nine children blessed the
marriage. Tlieir son Jolm received the best
common school education the time and place af-
forded, and also mastered the elementary
branches of the sciences. At the age of eighteen
he taught school himself in the vicinity of his
home town; then at Eodman, in Jefferson
county, N. Y., and on two or three occasions
made the entire journey tliere and back from
his home, a distance of some three hundred
miles, on foot. Energy and persistence were
marked traits in both his private and public
life. He represented his town, Hartford, in
the Lower House of the Assembly in 1840, 1841
and 1842; and was a senator from Windsor
county in 1843 and 1844; then was again in
the House in 1845, 1848 and 1849. In 1851
he was elected a director of the Vermont State
prison, and again in 1852. In 1850 he was
elected judge of Probate of Windsor county,
and held the office by successive reflections
until the time of his death.
Judge Porter was a zealous Whig, and for
years a member of the Whig State committee.
In 1856, on the organization of the Eepub-
lican party, he was chosen one of the presi-
dential electors for Vermont. In 1858 he was
appointed a commissioner, with George P.
Marsh and Norman Williams, to prepare plans
for the erection of the present State capitol of
Vermont, and also to superintend its con-
struction. On the organization of the Wood-
stock Bank he was elected a director, serving
until the bank was reorganized, when he was
chosen a director of the Woodstock National
Bank, a relation he sustained until the time
of his death.
On May 30, 1831, Judge Porter was married
to Jane Frances, daughter of Dr. Fordyce
Foster, of Hartford, Vt., and six children
blessed this union, the following of whom sur-
vived the father: Jane F. married Charles T.
Smith, of Colchester, Conn., and resided at
Brookline, Mass., where both died; Louise A.
is the widow of John H. Denison, of New Bed-
ford, Mass.; Hon. Charles W., who resided at
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Montpelier, Vt. (was former secretary of
State), where he died in 1891, married Florence
Bailey.
Dr. Charles A. Pratt was bom in Eayn-
ham, Mass., Oct. 23, 1863, son of Hiram A.
and Louise Caroline (Dean) Pratt, and grand-
son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (White) Pratt
(the latter born in Taunton and a descendant
of Nicholas White) and of Charles (born in
eastern Massachusetts) and Lydia (Wilbur)
Dean (the latter born in Taunton). Louise
Caroline Dean married (first) Alonzo Dean and
(second) his brother Charles Dean, sons of
Elisha Dean, Jr., and grandsons of Elisha
Dean, Sr. Dr. Pratt received his primary
schooling in Eaynham and in the Somerville,
Mass., public schools, to which place his family
removed when he was fourteen years of age.
He graduated from Harvard University in
1886, and from the medical department of the
same institution in 1890. He was for one and
a half years house officer in a hospital in
Boston, and in 1893 began practice in New
Bedford. He is a member of the American
Medical Association, Massachusetts Medical
Society and Boston Medical Library Association.
Dr. Pratt married May Louise, daughter of
John H. and Louise A. (Porter) Denison, and
they have had children as follows : John Den-
ison, Louise, Charles A., Jr., and William
Porter.
SEABUEY. The American ancestor of the
Seaburys of New Bedford was (I) John Sea-
bury, of Boston, who died before 1662. The
name was variously spelled Sebury, Saberry, Sa-
berrey and Sabury. John Seabury married
Grace, and had two sons — John, who went to
Barbadoes; and Samuel, born Dec. 10, 1640 —
and several daughters.
(II) Samuel Seabury, son of John, born
Dec. 10, 1640, married at Weymouth, Nov. 9,
1660, Patience Kemp, who died Oct. 29, 1676.
He married (second) April 4, 1677, Martha
Pabodie (or Peabody), daughter of William
and Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie, and grand-
daughter of John and Priscilla (Mullins)
Alden. He died Aug. 5, 1681. His children
were: Elizabeth, born Sept. 16, 1661, who
probably removed from the town, as in her
mother's will she was given a negro girl Jane
and a cow "if she returns"; Sarah, born Aug.
18, 1663; Samuel, bom April 20, 1666; Han-
nah, bom July 7, 1668; John, bom Nov. 7,
1670; and Grace and Patience, twins, born
March 1, 1673 (all born to the first marriage) ;
Joseph, born June 8, 1678 ; Martha, born Sept.
23, 1679; and John, who married Elizabeth
Alden, Dec. 9, 1697 (to the second marriage).
Samuel Seabury, the father, was a physician
and removed to Duxbury, Mass. His will gives
to his son Samuel his landed property in Dux-
bury; to son Joseph "those great silver buttons
which I usually wear"; to son John "my bird-
ing piece and musket. I will that my negro
servant Nimrod (valued at twenty-seven
pounds) be disposed of either by hire or sale
in order to bring up my children, especially
the three youngest now bom."
• (III) Joseph Seabury, son of Samuel (un-
doubtedly), removed to what is now Little
Compton, E. I., and there married Sept. 25,
1701, Phebe Smith. He died Aug. 22, 1755,
and she April 21, 1715. Their children were:
Samuel, born June 5, 1702; Martha, Feb. 7,
1704; Joseph, Dec. 2, 1705; Benjamin, Jan.
20, 1708; Sion, March 17, 1713; Mary, April
17, 1715.
(IV) Benjamin Seabury, born Jan. 20,
1708, son of Joseph and Phebe (Smith) Sea-
bury, married in 1733 Eebecca Southworth,
born Dec. 22, 1708, daughter of Edward and
Mary. He died in 1773. Their children were
Mercy, bom Aug. 13, 1734; Mary, Jan. 25
1736; Eebecca (twin to Mary), Jan. 25, 1736
Euth, Nov. 26, 1739; Benjamin, Jan. 24, 1743
Fobes, March 29, 1745 (died June 4, 1746)
Gideon, March 1, 1747 (died Oct. 29, 1827)
Constant, June 19, 1749; and Isaac, Nov. 3,
1751.
(V) Constant Seabury, son of Benjamin and
Eebecca, bom June 19, 1749, married in 1775
Susanna Gray. He died in January, 1807.
To him and his wife were born children as
follows: Isaac, bom March 19, 1776 (died Oct.
20, 1850) ; Phebe, May 13 (or 23), 1778; Wil-
liam, May 23, 1780; Hannah, July 29 (or 24),
1782; Bridget, Sept. 14, 1784; Ichabod, Nov.
18, 1786: Eobert, July 10, 1789; and Eliza-
■ beth, Nov. 16, 1792.
(VI) William Seabury, son of Constant, was
born May 23, 1780, and died July 30, 1852,
in New Bedford. He was a master mariner in
the merchant service, residing first in Tiver-
ton, E. I., later in Little Compton, and after
1833 in New Bedford. On April 12, 1807, he
was married to Ehoda Woodman, bom Dec. 11,
1786, who died Jan. 2, 1833. On Feb. 16,
1834, he was married (second) to Sally Wood-
man, sister of his first wife. They were daugh-
ters of Edward and Priscilla (Negus) Wood-
man, granddaughters of John and Patience
(Grirmell) Woodman, great-granddaughters of
Eobert and Deborah (Paddock) Woodman and
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great-great-granddaughters of John and Han-
nah (Timberlake) Woodman, John Woodman be-
ing the ancestor of this branch of the family.
The children of William Seabury, all born to
his first marriage, were as follows: Otis, born
Sept. 1, 1808, died June 2, 1880; Edward W.,
born Jan. 3, 1810, died Feb. 1, 1884; Louisa,
born Nov. 11, 1811, died Jan. 3, 1895 (she
married Benjamin Cushman) ; William H.,
bom Nov. 15, 1813, died Jan. 27, 1897; Julia
Ann, born May 19, 1815, died Jan. 12, 1892.
unmarried; Humphrey W. was born June 28,
1817; Charles P. was born Aug. 16, 1820;
Jason, born Nov. 2, 1832, was lost in the Arctic
ocean in 1853; Andrew Jackson, born May 19,
1836, died Sept. 22, 1836.
(VII) Hdmpheey W. Seabury, son of Capt.
William and Ehoda (Woodman) Seabury, was
born June 28, 1817, in Tiverton, R. I., spent
the greater part of his boyhood in Little Comp-
ton, whither his family had removed, and in
his sixteenth year came with them to their
permanent home. New Bedford. Here, at this
period, the enterprise of the place was repre-
sented around the busy wharves and seafaring
was the promising business, so there sprang up
in his mind a determination to make that his
calling and to become the commander of a
ship, an ambition later attained with credit to
himself and profit to the owners. After a short
experience on a coasting vessel to New York,
he first visited a foreign land when he went
to Holland on the bark with the good-omened
named "Hope," of which his father was cap-
tain. This proved an auspicious opening to
his career on the ocean, though he began at
the bottom of the ladder as foremast hand and
accepted no unusual favors. His first whaling
voyage was commenced in his nineteenth year
on the "Corinthian," commanded by Capt.
Leonard Crowell. The ship sailed from New
Bedford Dec. 8, 1835, and arrived home Feb.
19, 1839. On this voyage young Seabury ad-
vanced upward toward his cherished goal and
was promoted from the position of boat steerer
to that of third mate. His second voyage was
as first ofiicer of the "Coral," Capt. James H.
Sherman. The ship sailed June 16, 1839, and
arrived home June 11, 1843. The "Coral"
cruised on the coast of Peru and off the
Galapagos islands. Whales were sighted eighty-
nine times during the voyage and one or more
captured in fifty-eight instances. The whole
number taken was 102. It was a most remark-
able catch, surpassed in but few cases in the
history of whale fishery. A thrilling incident
occurred during this voyage that well illustrates
the dangers to which whalemen are exposed.
On June 15, 1841, the "Coral's" boats were
out after a one-hundred-barrel sperm whale
just south of the Galapagos islands. He proved
to be what the sailors term a "bad" whale —
one that fights with his jaws. He turned upon
the boats and literally chewed two of them in
pieces. One of the sailors was drowned, and
another, named Jethro S. Studley, was saved
from a similar fate by the plucky action of Mr.
Seabury, who, diving for him as he sank in
the depths, brought him to the surface by the
hair. Mr. Seabury said this was the only "jaw
fighter" he encountered in his experience, which
included the taking of 12,000 barrels of sperm
oil. On the third voyage, at the age of twenty-
five, Mr. Seabury attained the position which
he had aimed to get since his youth, and on
Nov. 16, 1842, sailed as captain of the "Coral."
Thirty-nine sperm and ten right whales were
captured on tliis voyage, and he rfeturned home
March 9, 1846. On Nov. 17, 1846, he sailed
for the Pacific ocean in the "Coral," captured
one hundred whales, and returned home June
11, 1850, with a cargo of 3,350 barrels of sperm
oil. The price current on arrival was $1.19
per gallon, and the value of the entire catch
was more than $136,000. This was one of the
notable voyages in the history of the whaling
industry from New Bedford. From 1850 to
1872 Captain Seabury was acting outside agent
with his older brother, Otis, during this time
making a trip in 1853 as commander of the
ship "Mechanics Own" to the Sandwich Islands
taking supplies to whaling vessels and bring-
ing back a cargo of oil and bone. He subse-
quently made a merchant voyage to Pernam-
buco and Rio de Janeiro in 1856 in the "Com-
merce," visited Paris in 1858, Havana in 1870
and Chili in 1871. His last whaling voyage
was a short one entered upon in May, 1860,
when he took command of the "Scotland,"
which had come in before time, and went to
the North Atlantic and returned Dec. 1, 1860,
with one hundred barrels of sperm oil.
Captain Seabury retired from sea service at
the period when the whale fishery had attained
its most profitable and successful prosecution,
the middle of the last century, and in 1872 he
retired permanently from active participation
in business, though to the date of his death he
found agreeable employment in the affairs of
the city and its institutions. He served the
city as alderman from the Fifth ward in 1870,
and also served as councilman and member of
the school committee. In all these positions
he rendered service with honor to himself and
with substantial benefit to the city. The New
Bedford Mercury in an editorial notice of his
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decease said : "He was a faithful and conscien-
tious public servant, positive in his opinions,
and plain in his expressions of them. His
honesty was of the rugged and uncompromis-
ing type, as sterling in matters of principle as
in those which involved money. He was an
ardent and active Eepublican, holding to the
extreme temperance wing of that party, and
as such for many years conspicuous in the pri-
mary meetings, where he led many a fight with
the so-called liberal faction. He was a good
citizen, whose influence and example were al-
ways exerted fearlessly in the way he believed
to be right."
Captain Seabury was interested in many of
the business enterprises that have substantial-
ly added to the growth and prosperity of the
city. He was a director in the First National
Bank, and at his death its officers passed resolu-
tions that extolled his integrity and his faith-
fulness to duty. He was a member of the In-
dian Association from the beginning of its or-
ganization, and it also honored his memory
with a testimonial showing appreciation of his
services.
Captain Seabury was associated with the
Friends' Society, a constant attendant upon its
meetings, and a generous supporter of its in-
terests ; a member of the board of managers of
the Port Society, and associate member of the
Y. M. C. A. In all the stations of life he
enjoyed the confidence and sincere respect of
all. His charities were of a quiet nature, yet
few men more thoroughly considered the needs
of the poor, or more constantly studied the wel-
fare and convenience of his fellow man.
On Oct. 14, 1850, Captain Seabury was mar-
ried to Mary B. Wilcox, who died March 10,
1852, the mother of one son, Charles Albert,
who died at the age of four years. Captain
Seabury married (second) Aug. 12, 1855,
Susan M. GifCord, daughter of Nathaniel and
Mercy (Macomber) Gifford. Two daughters,
Mary B. and Helen H., were born to this
union, and reside in New Bedford.
Captain Seabury passed away on his birth-
day, June 28, 1891, and Mrs. Seabury sur-
vived him until March 6, 1899.
(VII) Capt. Charles P. Seabdet, son of
Capt. William and Ehoda (Woodman) Sea-
bury, was born Aug. 16, 1820, in Tiverton, and
received his education in the district school in
the town of Little Compton. He lived on the
farm until thirteen years old, when he came
to New Bedford, and was employed in the store
for 0. & E. W. Seabury, remaining two years.
Having a strong desire for the sea he shipped
in 1835, at the age of fifteen, as a cabin boy on
the whaling ship "Nile," Captain Townsend,
and continued in the whaling business for a
period of fourteen years. In 1849 he com-
manded the ship "America," which sailed for
California during the gold fever with a large
number of passengers. Eeturning from his
trip to California in 1853, the ship was fitted
out for a whaling voyage, Captain Seabury in
command. They sailed to the Arctic ocean,
and the following year the ship was staved by
ice near the Behring straits, and the captain
and crew were obliged to abandon her with a
loss of several hundred barrels of oil. They
were taken on board the "Minerva Smyth,"
Captain Childs, of New Bedford, who landed
them at San Francisco. Captain Seabury then
Joined a steamer as first officer, and continued
to serve in that capacity on different steamers
for some time. He then took command of a
steamship running between San Francisco and
the Isthmus, continuing thus for some time.
Returning home, he became commander on
one of the Vanderbilt line of steamers, plying
between New York and Aspinwall. During
the Civil war he had command of several steam
transports. Later he took command of the
steamer "Arizona," plying between New York,
China and California, taking her through the
Suez canal, in December, 1870, it being the
first American steamship to pass through the
canal. Subsequently he commanded the
steamer "Granada" from New York to San
Francisco and China, taking her through the
straits of Magellan. After completing this
last voyage he gave up the sea, and was for a
time in the employ of the United States gov-
ernment in the custom house department at
New Bedford, serving as boarding officer, to
fill the unexpired term of Capt. James V.
Cox. On account of his health he resigned the
office and made his home on Fifth street. New
Bedford, where he died Dec. 21, 1890. He was
one of the best known and most skilled naviga-
tors in his section of New England, and was
popular with all who knew him. Politically he
was a stanch Republican. His remains rest in
Rural cemetery, New Bedford.
Captain Seabury was married in New Bed-
ford, April 15, 1847, to Sarah Wilcox, who was
born at Westport, Mass., March 26, 1825,
daughter of Benjamin and Patty (Brownell)
Wilcox. Mrs. Seabury, with her daughter and
son-in-law, resides on Fifth street. New Bed-
ford. Captain and Mrs. Seabury had children :
Jason, bom March 2, 1855, died May 29, 1860;
Charles P., Jr., born May 21, 1856, died June
I, 1856; Charles P., Jr. (2), was born June
II, 1857; Annie, born Dec. 26, 1858, married
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Dec. 31, 1900, Frank Wood, a well known cot-
ton broker of New Bedford; and Harry Wil-
lard, born April 28, 1863, died March 28,
1868.
(VIII) Charles P. Seabury, Jr., was born
in New Bedford June 11, 1857, and was edu-
cated in the schools there. He was a traveling
salesman for the Meriden Britannia Company,
of Meriden, Conn., and died at Dubuque, Iowa,
while on a trip, Feb. 22, 1896. He married
Nov. 18, 1880, Avis J. Dwelley, daughter of
Dr. Jerome Dwelley, of Fall Eiver. They had
one child, Eichard, born Oct. 9, 1888, who
died Dec. 5, 1890.
CAPT. JOSHUA GAGE BAKEE, a retired
whaling master, who died Nov. 1, 1910, at
Padanaram, in the town of Dartmouth, Bristol
Co., Mass., was a member of the Baker family
which has been identified with that section for
the past hundred years. He was born there,
in the village of Bakersville, South Dartmouth,
Oct. 31, 1845, and after tliirty-two years on
the water retired to the neighborhood where he
had spent his early life to enjoy the years of
his retirement. However, retirement did not
mean inactivity, for he devoted much of
hie time to the public service, making himself
useful to the town in many capacities and giving
the benefit of his time and efforts to his fellow
citizens. His work was highly appreciated, and
no man in the community had a better record
for intelligent citizenship and disinterested
labors in behalf of the town.
The Bakers of South Dartmouth trace their
lineage back to Francis Baker, the first of the
line in New England, from whom we give the
genealogical record in chronological ordor.
(I) Francis Baker was born in England in
1611. His last residence in his native land was
at Great St. Albans, Hertfordshire, and in
1635 he came over in the ship "Planter," locat-
ing at Yarmouth, Mass. He married Isabel
Tarning, of Yarmouth, and died in 1696, the
last of the first comers. His children were :
Nathaniel, John, Samuel, Daniel, William,
Thomas, Elizabeth (married John Chase) and
Hannah.
(II) Daniel Baker, son of Francis, married
May 27, 1674, Elizabeth Chase, daughter of
William Chase (2), the latter born in Yar-
mouth, Mass., in 1622. To this union were
born the following children : Daniel, born in
1675; Samuel, .1676; Elizabeth, 1678 (married
in 1705 Nathan Baker) ; Hannah (married in
1714 Joseph Nixon) ; Thankful ; and Tabitha.
(III) Samuel Baker, son of Daniel, born in
1676, married Patience, and their children
were: Shubal, born March 24, 1710; Susannah,
June 22, 1711; Hezekiah, Aug. 4, 1715;
Tabitha, March 8, 1718; Desire, Feb. 5, 1720;
Elizabeth, Sept. 9, 1725; and Samuel, June 4,
1732.
(IV) Shubal Baker, son of Samuel, born
March 24, 1710, married in 1733,Lydia Stuart.
Their children were: Sylvanus, born March
10, 1734; Azubah, May 17, 1737; Temperance,
June 24, 1739; Shubal, Nov. 11, 1741; Eliza-
beth, Jan. 2, 1744; Lydia, Oct. 13, 1746; Euth,
June 25, 1749 ; and Patience, July 19, 1752.
(V) Shubal Baker (2), son of Shubal, born
Nov. 11, 1741, married Nov. 15, 1764, Eebecca
Chase, bom Aug. 24, 1747, daughter of Eichard
and Thankful Chase. To this union were born :
Hepsabcth (or Hepsibah), born Oct. 15, 1765,
married March 23, 1786, Zenos Chase;
Archelus, born Nov. 26, 1767, married in 1789
Mehitable Chase; Eebecca, born Dec. 19, 1770,
married Dec. 11, 1788, David Howes; Shubal,
born July 10, 1772, married Jan. 10, 1793,
Mercy Smalley; Ezra, born Sept. 5, 1775, is
mentioned below; Michael, born Nov. 6, 1776,
died April 7, 1796; Ensign, born July 3, 1779,
married Dec. 27, 1800, Sally Nickerson;
Temperance, born Oct. 15, 1781, married Dec.
4, 1800, Henry Kelly; Abigail, born Nov. 22,
1783, married April 20, 1807, Edward Sears;
Sylvanus, born Aug. 24, 1786, married March
1, 1800, Bethiah Crowell; and Halsey, bom
Feb. 27, 1789, married Nov. 28, 1811, Mercy
Allen.
(VI) Ezra Baker, son of Shubal (2), born
Sept. 5, 1775, in tlie town of Harwich, Barn-
stable Co., Mass., was one of the six Baker
brothers who in 1806 came to Bristol county
and settled on a tract of land which he cul-
tivated during the remainder of his life. He
died there March 25, 1842, in his sixty-seventh
year. He is buried in South Dartmouth. Mr.
Baker was a member of the M. E. Church and
respected as a good Christian man. On March
13, 1795, he married Susan Gage, who was
born July 8, 1779, at Harwich, Mass., and
died July 7, 1866, at her home in Bakersville,
South Dartmouth. She was laid to rest beside
her husband in the cemetery in South Dart-
mouth. Their children were as follows: David
Gage, born Nov. 12, 1795, died Sept. 25, 1820,
of yellow fever, while on a voyage from Ha-
vana, Cuba; Michael was born Jan. 1, 1797;
Susanna, born June 28, 1800, married (first)
Eussell Crapo and (second) Wanton Westgate,
and died July 3, 1873 ; Ezra, born Jan. 7, 1802,
died Sept. 22, 1820, of yellow fever, while on
the passage from Havana, Cuba; Joshua Gage,
born Jan. 1, 1804, died Sept. 16, 1804; Lovey,
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573
born Sept. 17, 1806, married Holder W.
Brownell; Eliza, born June 16, 1809, married
Thomas Lapham, and died Jan. 6, 1903;
Hepsibeth Gage, born March 25, 1813, married
William E. Borden, and died Oct. 16, 1876;
Joshua Gage was born Oct. 5, 1814; Sylvia
Davoll, born April 20, 1817, married Christ-
opher Booth ; Jane Crocker, born July 22, 1830,
married Ephraim C. Ellis, of Harwich, Mass.,
and died May 4, 1896 (Mr. ElUs died in 1910).
(VII) Joshua Gage Baker, son of Ezra, was
born Oct. 5, 1814, at Bakersville, South Dart-
mouth, and grew up to farm life, working on
the homestead from boyhood. He learned the
butcher's trade, at which he was engaged for
some time, also continuing to carry on the
farm, and in 1849, at the height of the gold
excitement, he went overland to California,
where he spent two years prospecting and min-
ing. After his return to the East he followed
a seafaring life for about twenty years, engag-
ing in the coast trade between New Bedford
and nearby ports, going to Philadelphia for
coal, and in the winter months running to the
West Indies. He was master of the schooner
"Adelaide" and of the "Henrietta," and of the
brig "Ormers," of which he was part owner.
Eetiring in 1870, Mr. Baker spent the remain-
der of his days at the homestead in Bakers-
ville, where he died Oct. 6, 1883, at the age
of sixty-nine years. Mr. Baker was a Eepub-
lican in political sentiment.
On April 14, 1834, Joshua Gage Baker mar-
ried Mary Briggs, who was born May 29, 1816,
daughter of Elihu and Polly (Kelley) Briggs,
and died in 1841. To this union were born
three childreq: A daughter that died in in-
fancy; Ethelenda Gage, born in February,
1836, widow of John Castino, residing in New
Bedford; and Hepsebath, who died young.
On Jan. 15, 1842, Mr. Baker married (second)
Susan Kelley Briggs, who was born Sept. 26,
1826, and was a sister of his first wife ; she
died Jan. 9, 1860, and is buried in South Dart-
mouth. There were five children by the sec-
ond marriage, namely: Mary, born March 12,
1843, who married Edward F. Potter, and died
Jan. 31, 1882; Joshua Gage, born Oct. 31,
1845; Adelaide, born April 11, 1848, who mar-
ried (first) Giles Bennett, of Bakersville, and
(second) Charles Sanford, of New Bedford
(both are now deceased, and she resides in New
Bedford) ; Amy, born Aug. 13, 1853, who died
in 1861 ; and Eva Gage, born March 15, 1855,
who married Stephen S. Davis, chief engineer
in the United States lighthouse service, and re-
sides at Fairhaven.
(VIII) Joshua Gage Baker (2), son of
Joshua Gage, received his education in the dis-
trict schools in his native village and worked
at home until he was sixteen years old. He
then made choice of a seafaring life, shipping
on the whaler "Sea Breeze," as a common
sailor, under Capt. William Weeks. His first
voyage was on the Atlantic; Ins second as boat
steerer; third as second mate on the whaling
bark "Matilda Sears," of Dartmouth, owned by
William Potter and commanded by William
Gifford; his fourth in the same ship as first
officer under Capt. Gilbert Borden. Upon
completing that voyage he was made master of
the ship "Reindeer," built by W. C. N. Swift,
of New Bedford, which he took out June 12,
1877, continuing in command of her for fifteen
years. He sailed her in the southern Pacific
waters and part of the time from the port of
San Francisco to the Arctic ocean. The owners
sold this vessel in 1892 and Captain Baker be-
came master of the whaling steamer "Beluga,"
owned by the Pacific Whaling Steamship Com-
pany, in which he made one voyage, during
which eighteen whales were captured. Eeturn-
ing to San Francisco — from which port he had
sailed for ten years — at the close of that trip,
he gave up the water and came back to his
native place, locating in Padanaram, where he
made his home during the remainder of his
life.
Upon his return to his early home Captain
Baker at once interested himself in local affairs,
in which he took a most active part, filling the
offices of selectman, overseer of the poor, mem-
ber of the board of health, constable and truant
officer, holding the latter position three years.
He was a stanch Eepublican in political mat-
ters. Captain Baker proved his high char-
acter in everything he undertook, and was
ever faithful and honorable in the discharge
of the duties assigned him. He was a member
of Star in the East Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and
of the Dartmouth Historical Society, of which
Mrs. Baker is a member.
On June 30, 1873, Captain Baker married
Susan M. Davis, daughter of Charles A. and
Susan M. (Maxfield) Davis. They had three
children : Edward Davis, who is in the employ
of the mercantile firm of Cummings & Cum-
mings, of New Bedford, married Sarah E.
Shaw, of Dartmouth, Mass., and has had three
children, Edward D. (died in infancy), a son
that died in infancy and Marion Shaw;
Charles A. died unmarried June 18, 1910;
Joshua Gage, Jr., who is engaged as a book-
keeper at New Bedford, married Elsie Florence
Luce and has two children, Ellsworth D. and
Gladys A.
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SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
WARNER (Taunton family). Through
much of the century but recently closed and on
into this one, New Bedford and Taunton, re-
spectively, have been the home of a branch of
the New England Warners. Reference is made
to the families of the late Joseph B. and the
present Hon. Richard Everett Warner, of Taun-
ton, the latter of whom has for some twenty-
five years been identified with the business af-
fairs and actively interested in the growth of
his adopted city, useful in its citizenship, and
prominent in public life; while the former was
long one of the leading business men of New
Bedford.
The Warner family is an ancient one in New
England, and now numerous the country over.
The Warners of New England descend largely
from Andrew, William and John Warner,
"never as yet connected on this side of the water,
though very likely all of one family in England,
in times remote," according to Wilbur F. War-
ner, Esq., in Stiles's "Ancient Wethersfield,"
but recently published. Of the three Andrew was
of Cambridge as early as 1632, and later re-
moved to Hadley. The name of his first wife, the
. mother of his children, is unknown. His chil-
dren settled at Hadley, Mass., and Middletown,
Conn. William Warner was at Ipswich as early
as 1637. And John Warner, the third progenitor
alluded to above, settled in Farmington, and is
the ancestor of a long line of Warners, who
settled in Woodbury, Waterbury and other
neighboring Connecticut towns. From William
Warner, the immigrant and the Ipswich settler,
through his son Daniel Warner, of that town,
and the latter's son, Lieut, and Deacon William
Warner, who removed to Wethersfield between
1660 and 1665, have descended about all of the
Warners of that town. Then there was John
Warner, who came to New England in the ship
"Increase," in 1635, embarking at London, who
is of record at Providence as early as 1637, and
who subsequently was of Warwick. His name
has been perpetuated through his son John of
Warwick, and the latter's sons, John and
Ezekiel, all of whom were prominent men in
their several towns, some serving often as
deputy. Again, many of the prominent South-
ern Warners are of the blood of Col. Augustus
Warner, who settled in Virginia, and whose
daughter Mildred became the wife of Lawrence
Washington, and the grandmother of President
and General George Washington.
It may be a matter of interest to note that
from the New England Warners came the dis-
tinguished lawyer and jurist of Georgia — Hon.
Hiram Warner, member of the United Stated
Congress and Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Georgia ; a man of Massachusetts birth
as was also the late Charles Dudley Warner,
the author. From the Farmington settler, John
Warner, sprang that gallant soldier of Revo-
lutionary fame, Col. Seth Warner, who as sec-
ond in command assisted in the capture of
Ticonderoga, and on the following day took
the important post of Crown Point with its
garrison and 113 cannon. For this he was
given by Congress in July, 1775, a colonel's
commission, and afterward he was a conspicuous
figure throughout the war, remaining with the
army until 1782 when his health gave way and
he returned with his family to the town of
Roxbury.
As indicated New Bedford, this Common-
wealth, was the home of the immediate fore-
fathers of the present head of the Taunton
Warner family — Hon. Richard Everett Warner,
member of the former firm of White, Warner
& Co., and now treasurer of its successor, the
White- Warner Company, one of the extensive
manufacturing concerns of Taunton.
Joseph B. Warner, father of Richard Everett
Warner, was a son of Joseph and Nabby (But-
terick) Warner, of Acton. He and his associate
John H. Denison were the founders in 1858
of the flouring and feed mills at New Bed-
ford, Mass., of the Denison, Plummer Com-
pany, and for years Mr. Warner was identified
with them through their several changes in
ownership and style of firm ; and as well was
one of New Bedford's enterprising and pro-
gressive citizens, alive to its advancement and
the welfare of its people. After a residence of
a number of years in New Bedford Mr. Warner
on April 26, 1863, moved to North Dighton,
where he bought a farm and where many years
of an active life were spent. During the earlier
years of the Civil war. and while a resident of
New Bedford, not being able to enli«t on ac-
coiint of a bad knee, he gave expression to his
patriotism by furnishing to the government six
recruits all fully equipped for service. Mr.
Joseph B. Warner after locating in North
Dighton became active in public affairs of the
town, being treasurer and selectman for some
years. In his earlier political life he was a
Republican, but on the election of President
Cleveland he became a Cleveland Democrat, as
he was opposed in every way to the principles
and policies of James G. Blaine. He was treas-
urer of the Dighton Stove Lining Company of
Dighton. Mr. Warner married Lucy E. Pierce,
daughter of Simeon and Lucy (Haskins)
Pierce, and a descendant of one of the early
comers to New England. They had two chil-
dren : Lucy Butterick ; and Richard Everett,
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575
born Oct. 6, 1861. Joseph B. Warner died at
his home in Taunton in 1892. '
Richard Everett Warner was born Oct. 6,
1861, in New Bedford, Mass., and acquired his
education in the public schools of Dighton and
in the Bristol Academy, located in that same
city. It having been determined that he learn
a trade, young Warner in 1876 entered the
employ of the Dighton Stove Lining Company,
for the purpose of learning the business of the
concern. With these men he continued until
1881, when for approximately a year he was
employed in the capacity of general manager
of the sales department of the Somerset Pottery
Company's Providence branch, where he was
located for a time. Leaving this establishment
in July, 1883, he seemingly struck the position
that led to his rise and success in the business
world, entering as he did this, the concern
with which he has ever since been identified —
long as a partner, stockholder and officer. His
personal equipment, as he said, for this under-
taking, consisted of a good wife, good supply of
wearing apparel and $2,700. On his entering
the business it was that of White, Walker & Co.,
which in 1886 became White, Warner & Co.,
he at that time acquiring the interest of Mr.
Walker. The business continued under that
firm style until it was incorporated in February,
1897, as The White- Warner Company, its pres-
ent style, and of which Mr. Warner has been
treasurer since the incorporation. The business
of the company is the manufacture of stoves,
ranges and furnaces. Mr. White died in 1903,
and Mr. Howard A. Tinkham became president
and Mr. Henry E. Wilbur secretary. Mr.
Warner has been closely identified with this
company since 1882, from that time up to 1886
doing any and all kinds of work necessary to
the success of a small struggling manufacturing
concern; he then for seventeen years from that
time on acted as its salesman on the road, and
also assumed the responsibility of disposing of
the entire product, while later as its treasurer
and during the illness and after the death of
his partner, Mr. White, he had the entire re-
sponsibility of the conduct of the business. It
can truly be said of him that he created the
major part of that now large and important
industry. He has been instrumental in its
development from a small plant employing
twelve men to one now employing between 360
and 370 ; from a plant established upon a basis
of $280,000 per annum before the fire to one
of over $700,000 with its increased equipment.
Mr. Warner has ever taken an intelligent and
active interest in all that pertains to the ad-
vancement of Taunton, devoting not a little of
his time to the public affairs of the city. He
had so successfully managed his own business
affairs that his fellow-citizens became impressed
with his fitness for public office, and they elected
him to the board of aldermen, of which he was
a good working member in 1893 and 1894,
serving as chairman of the board in the year
last named. In 1894 he was appointed by
Governor Russell a member of the State Board
of Arbitration and Conciliation (now Con-
ciliation and Arbitration), a position he held
for one and a half years when he resigned on
account of the press of his own business. In
1895 he served as one of the License commis-
sioners. He was mayor of the city in 1902,
1903 and 1904, giving to the citizens of Taun-
ton an administration characterized by strong
business methods, and a consequent material
reduction in their tax rate. In 1908 he was
elected a member of the board of county com-
missioners of Bristol county, and he was
reelected in 1911.
Mr. Warner is a member of King David
Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; St. Mark's Chapter,
R. A. M.; Sutton Commandery, K. T., of New
Bedford; Good Samaritan Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. ;
and Taunton Lodge, KJnights of Pythias.
In April, 1881, Mr. Warner was married to
Ida E., daughter of Horatio L. and Mary E.
(Mason) Briggs, of Dighton. Three children
have blessed this marriage : Joseph E., a
graduate of Harvard Law School and now an
attorney at Taunton; Ella E., who married
Eugene H. Brownell and resides in Taunton
(she has two children, Evelyn and Eugenia),
and Grace M. Mrs. Warner died in February,
1893, and Mr. Warner married (second) in
October, 1895, Mrs. Nettie M. (Lewis) Peirce,
of New Bedford, daughter of Elijah R. and
Mary A. (Simmons) Lewis, and widow of
Frank E. Peirce.
LORING W. PUFFER. While the family
of Puffer is not a Bridgewater one in point of
antiquity, it is one here in what was long the
North parish (North Bridgewater, and now
Brockton) of some fifty and more years' stand-
ing, a period covering the birth and growth of
the great industrial center and city it has be-
come, and in the life of which its now repre-
sentative head — the venerable Dr. Loring Wil-
liam Puffer, surgeon dentist, underwriter, edi-
tor and writer — has been most active and use-
ful, ever alert in intelligent effort in the varied
lines that have brought about the wonderful
growth of the shoe city.
Dr. Puffer, the head of this Brockton fam-
ily, and the recognized local historian of the
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SOUTHEASTEEN MASSACHUSETTS
town and city, is, however, representative of
Bridgewater stock, descending in maternal line
from one of the original proprietors and num-
bering among his forbears and family connec-
tions some of the ancient and honored names in
the Commonwealth's history. In the paternal
line he is remotely connected with that illustrious
son of Massachusetts, Charles Sumner. Through
the Southworths he is of royal descent. He
numbers among his ancestors Eev. Thomas Car-
ter, who was bred in St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, England, taking his degrees in 1629
and 1633; came to New England in 1635 in
the "Planter," was for a time at Watertown
and Dedham, and was ordained in 1643 the
first minister at Woburn. Another of his for-
bears was Maj. General Humphrey Atherton,
of Dorchester, 1636, who perhaps was from
Preston in Lancashire, and here became cap-
tain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company, served many years in civic oflScial
life and succeeded Sedgwick as major general
of the Colonial forces. Still other of his early
forbears were Eev. James Keith, the Scotch
divine who was educated at Aberdeen and on
coming to New England, in 1662, was two
years later ordained the first minister of Bridge-
water; and Judge Joseph Wilder, long chief
justice of the court of Common Pleas, a man of
great gifts.
On Feb. 24, 1640, the town of Boston
granted to George Poffer land for five heads,
that is twenty acres at Mount Wollaston, after-
ward Braintree, and still later Quincy. Of
him nothing more is known, but the family was
continued under tlie name of Puffer by two
persons, who may confidently be called his sons ;
and the Widow Puffer, who died at Braintree,
Feb. 13, 1677, was undoubtedly his relict.
Mary Puffer, "an aged woman," who died at
the same place July 23, 1700, is perhaps, more
likely to have been his daughter than the
widow of his eldest spn. Of the two probable
sons of George Poffer, James, born about 1684,
married at Braintree Feb. 14, 1656, Mary Lud-
den, remained. on the paternal homestead, and
had children : Ejchard, Martha, Mary, James,
Euth, Eachel and Jabez. Mr. Poffer lived at
Braintree and there died July 25, 1692. The
other son of George, Mathias Puffer, married
at Braintree May 12, 1662, Enchcl Farnsworth,
and their children were : Joseph, John, James,
Jonathan and Esther (who married William
Sumner, of Milton). After the death of the
mother, who was killed by the Indians, her
blood being the first shed in the Colony, the
father married (second) Feb. 11, 1677, Abigail,
daughter of Eichard Everett, of Dedham, and
had children, Benjamin, Eleazer and Abigail.
After the death of his second wife Mr. Puffer
married (third) May 14, 1697, Mary Crehore,
probably Widow Teague, of Milton. Mr. Puffer
was for a time at Mendon, going there as one
of the first promoters and settlers. His wife
and one son, however, being slain in the attack
on the town by the Indians, July 14, 1675, he
withdrew to his native place, but finally re-
moved to Dorchester, and likely to that part
which later became Stoughton. He held sev-
eral offices in Dorchester, lived to advanced age
and distributed among his children lands in
Dorchester, Milton and Dedham, near Wren-
tham. It was through Mathias that descended
such distinguished men as Charles Sumner,
William S. Appleton and Charles Endicott.
From the foregoing source came the Puffers
of Stoughton, which town was the birthplace
of Dr. Loring W. Puffer, of Brockton, he being
the son of Loring Puffer and grandson of
Nathan Puffer, the latter of whom was a sol-
dier under General Scott, serving with him in
all of the battles of the frontier, 1812-15. Dr.
Puffers lineage from George Poffer is through
(II) James and Mary (Ludden) Puffer; (III)
Jabez and Mary (Glazier) Puffer; (IV) Sam-
uel and Dorothy (Haynes) Puffer; (V) Nathan
and Katy (Clapp) Puffer; (VI) Nathan and
Abigail (Joslyn) Puffer; and (VII) Loring
and Lucy II. (Southworth) Puffer.
In the maternal line Dr. Puffer's immediate
ancestors were of Stoughton residence, and his
great-grandfather, Capt. Jedidiah Southworth,
an officer who saw much active service in the
Eevolution, being captain at South Boston
Point Fort, was in direct line from Constant
Southworth (who was the brother of Thomas,
and son of Sir Edward Southworth, of Eng-
land, who died at Leyden), who was born in
1615, in England, and came to New England
in 1628; was an early settler in Duxbury, where
he died in 1679. He served in the Pequot war
in 1637, was later ensign and lieutenant in the
Duxbury company; was for twenty-two years
from 1647 deputy to the General Court at
Plymouth; was treasurer of Plymouth Colony
for sixteen years; was member of the council
of war, 1658 ; was commissioner for the United
Colonies, 1668; commissary general during
King Philip's war, etc.
As the history of this Plymouth Southworth
family goes, Edward Southworth, of Duke
Place, London, 1595, was early at Leyden, Hol-
land, where lie died. He had married in 1613
Alice, daughter of Alexander Carpenter, of
Wrington (?), Somersetshire. Edward died in
1620, leaving sons Constant and Thomas. The
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
577
Avidow Alice came to Plymouth in the "Ann"
in July, 1683, and on Aug. 14th of that year
married Gov. William Bradford, of Plymouth.
The sons, Constant and Thomas Southworth,
came to New England in 1628 at Governor
Bradford's request. SufBce it to say that the
lineage of Edward Southworth has been traced
back to the Saxon kings of England and their
ancestors, Cerdic and Odin.
Constant Southworth was one of the original
proprietors of Bridgewater, the first interior
settlement of the Old Colony, he being one of
the three who purchased the land from the In-
dians. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Wil-
liam Collier, a prominent citizen of Duxbury,
and it is said at that time the richest man in
Plymouth Colony. From one of their descend-
ants, Edward Southworth, who married in 1711
Bridget Bosworth, Dr. Puffer's descent is
through Constant Southworth (2) and his wife
Martha (Keith) ; Capt. Jedidiah Southworth
and his wife Mary (Atherton), of Stoughton;
Jedidiah Southworth (2) and his wife Sally
(Hewett) ; and Lucy Hewett (Southworth)
Puffer, wife of Loring Puffer, of Dorchester.
Loring William Puffer, D. D. S., son of Lor-
ing and Lucy Hewett (Southworth) Puffer,
was bom Sept. 17, 1828, in Stoughton, Mass.
His general education was acquired in com-
mon and private schools, which he attended un-
til he reached the age of eighteen years, and
he graduated from the Boston Dental College
March 17, 1870. From eighteen to twenty-
five years of age he was engaged in mechani-
cal work and the manufacturing of pegging
awls, which failing health obliged him to re-
linquish. The three years following were de-
voted to the study of medicine and dentistry.
He began the practice of dentistry in 1854,
and for nearly fifty-five years followed the pro-
fession, actively, from 1856 established in
North Bridgewater, which afterward became
Brockton. A few years after his removal to
North Bridgewater he became connected with
fire insurance business (1858), since which
time he has represented a number of the old-
line companies of England and America. This
business in connection with real estate in time
almost entirely displaced his profession. Dr.
Puffer is a great reader, and for over sixty
years has devoted an average of five hours in
each twenty-four to reading.
Quite early in life Dr. Puffer became a
copious correspondent for various newspapers,
and later had experience in the editorial chair,
being editor of the Brockton Advance for one
year, and editor of the Brockton Eagle during
37
the years 1884 and 1885. He has done other
literary work, especially in historical and bio-
graphical lines, which has widened his reputa-
tion. In 1871-72 he was adjunct professor of
operative and clinical dentistry in the Boston
Dental College, and professor in the institute
of dentistry and dental therapeutics in 1872-
73. Previous to 1880 he had been secretary,
treasurer and president of the Old Colony Den-
tal Association and was a frequent essayist at
its meetings. He has at two periods during his
residence in North Bridgewater, or Bfockton,
been a member of the school committee (1875-
1885) ; and for over a third of a century he has
been one ef the trustees of the public library
(of which he is known as the father), having
served as president of the board; was one of a
number of citizens who originally purchased the
library, and some years later gave it to the town.
He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1855,
and is now holding a commission; in 1883 he
was appointed a notary public, and also holds
a commission to perform marriages in Brock-
ton. For several years he has been a trustee of
the Brockton Savings Bank.
Soon after attaining his majority Dr. Puffer
became interested in politics, and his interest
has never flagged. Originally an Antislavery
man, he was among the first to help form and
sustain the Eepublican party, and has been
steadfastly devoted to its cause. Outspoken and
frank with tongue and pen, he is counted one
of the most efficient, honorable and successful
political workers in Massachusetts. He has
been on the Republican city committee of
Brockton for many years, and has also served
as chairman of the same. In 1856 he became
an active member of the Plymouth County
Agricultural Society; was a trustee for many
years, and has been vice president. In 1860
Dr. Puffer built the first greenhouse ever con-
structed in North Bridgewater; and from that
date to the present he has been an ardent hor-
ticulturist, florist and frequent, contributor to
agricultural, horticultural and floricultural
publications. Dr. Puffer was one of the most
active originators of the Brockton Agricultural
Society founded in 1874, which was a success
from the start. Its opening exhibition, held in
a tent for ten days, received an income of
$7,400; and to-day (1910) its annual income
has exceeded $100,000. The Doctor is also a
member of the New England Historic Genea-
logical Society; of the Natural History Society
of Boston ; of the Old Bridgewater Historical
Society, of which he has served as president;
of the Stoughton Historical Society, of which
he is a trustee; of the Old Colony Historical
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Society (honorary member), of Taunton; and
of the Massachusetts and Suburban Press Asso-
ciation. He is a charter member of Paul
Revere Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and of Satucket
Chapter, E. A. M., of Brockton.
On Sept. 18, 1856, Dr. Puffer was married
to Martha Mary Crane Worcester, niece and
adopted daughter of Hon. Samuel Thomas and
Mary Fenno Crane (Wales) Worcester, of Nor-
walk, Ohio. They have had four children, all
born in North Bridgewater, as follows: Loring
Worce^er, born Feb. 7, 1857, died July 29,
1858; Mary Crane, born April 11, 1859, is at
home, unmarried; William Loring, born May
27, 1863, married Dec. 5, 1888, Eliza Cook
Leonard, of Brockton, daughter of Cyrus and
Mary (Isaacs) Leonard, and has two daugh-
ters, Alice Louise and Catherine; and Clarence
Carter, born June 29, 1870, married June 19,
1901, Minnie Jean Rollins, of Jay, Maine,
daughter of William and Elmira J. (Mace)
Eollina.
AUGUSTUS TURNER JONES (deceased)
was born in North Bridgewater (now Brock-
ton) May 21, 1832, and there — except for the
time spent elsewhere in study or travel — passed
his entire life. As editor for many years of a
paper which under his management became one
of the most influential in this section, and as
a man of public spirit whose interest in the
community led him into active participation
in its administration, he was influential in
shaping the policies which characterize the best
features of the government of Brockton. He
bore an honored name, and his ancestors have
been noted for high ideals of citizenship in
every generation. As a son of Capt. Augustus
Jones and grandson of Capt. A^a Jones he
counted among his immediate forefathers men
who were both useful and active in local affairs.
Both received their titles for service in the
militia. Capt. Augustus Jones was one of the
honored guests at the inauguration of the first
municipal government of Brockton, at which
time he was a venerable man. A glance at the
records of the old North parish of Bridgewater
and of the later town of North Bridgewater
evidence the active part the earlier Joneses took
in its civil and political life.
On the maternal side Mr. Jones was
descended from several of the early settlers of
this section, including the Pilgrim John Alden
and Priscilla Mullins. From Lieut. James
Torrey and Thomas Snell the lines are as fol-
lows:
(I) Lieut. James Torrey, of Seituate, Massa-
chusetts.
(II) Jonathan Torrey, of Weymouth.
(III) Jonathan Torrey (2), of Weymouth.
(IV) David Torrey, of Weymouth.
(V) Deacon David Torrey, of Abington.
(VI') Turner Torrey married Sarah Snell.
(VII) Almeda Torrey married Augustus
Jones.
(I) Thomas Snell settled in what became
West Bridgewater about 1665.
(II) Josiah Snell married Dec. 21, 1699,
Anna Alden, of Duxbury, daughter of
Zachariah Alden.
(III) Zachariah Snell married Abigail Hay-
ward.
(IV) Ischar Snell, the next in line, married
Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Hayward.
(V) Sarah Snell married in 1803 Turner
Torrey.
Returning to the Joneses of Brockton, this
family should more properly be designated the
Raynham-Brockton family. It is an ancient
one in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the
late Augustus Turner Jones being a descend-
ant in the eighth generation from Thomas
Jones, of Hingham, England, who came to
America in the ship "Confidence" in 1638, and
settled at Taunton, Mass., his line of descent
being through Joseph (II) ; Nathan (III) ;
Nehemiah (IV); Nathan (V); Capt. Asa
(VI); and Capt. Augustus (VII).
The original Taunton included Raynham and
what became five other towns, and was settled
in 1638 or 1639 by emigrants principally from
Taunton in England. Settlements were made
in Raynham in 1652 by James Leonard, Henry
Leonard and Ralph Russell, who came from
Wales and first settled in Braintree. The act
setting off Raynham from Taunton as a distinct
subdivision or town bears date of April, 1731.
At the time it embraced thirty families. The
first name on the petition for such act was that
of Abraham Jones, who was the principal agent
in bringing the separation about.
From the late Samuel Jones of Raynham,
who either himself or the immediate family
traced out his line from Joseph Jones, we have
it that the latter settled in that part of Taun-
ton which later became the town of Raynliam;
that he died in 1726, aged sixty-seven years;
that he was a son of Thomas Jones of Hingham,
England, who came to New England in 1638
in the ship "Confidence," etc. The children
of Joseph Jones of Raynham, according to the
Probate records as stated by the late Samuel
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579
Jones cited above, were: Abraham, Benjamin,
Nathan, Elnathan, Submit (married a Part-
ridge), Sarah, Lydia (married a Bosworth),
Rebecca (married a Dyer) and Mary. Of these
it was Abraham Jones who was the principal
agent in bringing about the separation of the
Raynham settlement from the parent town. He
was one of the thirty-two persons dismissed from
the parent church in Taunton to organize the
First Church in the new town — Raynham.
Abraham, Joseph and Mary Jones were all in
full communion with this church when formed.
Joseph Jones was one of the selectmen of the
new town in 1733, and was a justice of the
peace. Several of the daughters of Squire
Jones married men of talent who became dis-
tinguished in the learned professions, namely:
Mary Jones married Rev. John Wilder, of
Charlestown; Louisa Jones married Rev. Linus
Shaw, of Sudbury, and a third daughter be-
came the wife of Dr. Alden Hathaway.
From this Raynham stock has descended the
Brockton family which for a hundred years and
more has been one substantial and influential
there, and which had in the late Augustus
Turner Jones a worthy and highly honored rep-
resentative, a man who had been long and
prominently identified with the business and
financial interests of the community. Mr. Jones
was descended from the North Bridgewater set-
tler, Capt. Asa Jones, who was a son of Nathan
Jones, of Raynham. Nathan Jones, the eldest
son of Capt. Asa, was a corporal in Capt.Nehe-
miah Lincoln's company, called out during the
war of 1812 to guard the forts along the coast.
He was a captain in 1827, major in 1828 and
lieutenant colonel in 1829. He was selectman
of the town of North Bridgewater in 184o and
1844. He was moderator of town meetings in
1836, 1837 and from 1839 to 1842.
Capt. Asa Jones came from Raynham to the
North parish of Bridgewater some years after
the American Revolution and here married,
Dec. 4, 1792, Rachel, daughter of Capt. Jere-
miah Beals. After her death he married (sec-
ond) Nov. 27, 1806, Charity, daughter of Mark
PerkinB. They died, Mr. Jones Dec. 6, 1840,
and Mrs. Jones, March 20, 1849. The chil-
dren of Captain Jones, all born to the first mar-
riage, were : Nathan, born Aug. 19, 1794 ; Ros-
seter, born Sept. 16, 1797 (father of Bradford
Elliot Jones, of Brockton) ; Sally, born Aug.
12, 1799, who married Nov. 18, 1819, John
Thompson; Augustus, bom Oct. 12, 1801; and
Asa Beals, born Sept. 21, 1803.
Capt. Augustus Jones, father of Augustus
Turner Jones, was bom Oct. 12, 1801, in North
Bridgewater. He learned the trade of carpen-
ter, which he followed for a number of years
in partnership with his brother Rosseter, doing
considerable work in Sharon, Milton and Ran-
dolph, as well as in their native town. Some
years prior to his death he retired from carpen-
ter work, his remaining days being devoted to
agricultural pursuits. He was for a number
of years connected with the State militia, being
an ensign in 1803, 1809 and 1818; he held the
commission of captain in the same in 1809, and
in that same year served on the committee of
North parish. Though a man of quiet, unpre-
tentious nature, devoted to his home and fam-
ily, he was an active man in local affairs and in
the religious life of the community. In early
life he was active in the work of the First Con-
gregational Church, being one of the committee
in 1824, and one of the advising committee
when the meeting-house was erected, in 1827;
and he was one of the charter members of the
Porter Congregational Church when it was or-
ganized in 1850, and thereafter until his death
was active in the latter as well as very liberal
in his support.
On Nov. 27, 1828, Captain Jones was married
to Almeda Torrey, eldest daughter of Turner
Torrey, who came from Weymouth, and they
celebrated their golden wedding Nov. 27, 1878.
To this union there were bom the following
children: Augustus Turner, mentioned below,
and Sarah Fidelia, born Jan. 1, 1834. The
daughter married Oct. 18, 1857, Charles R.
Ford (now deceased), who was one of the lead-
ing shoe manufacturers of Brockton for a num-
ber of years. Mrs. Ford now lives with her
daughter, Mrs. Wallace C. Keith, of North
Main street, Brockton; and is also the mother
of Miss Jennie H. Ford of Brockton and Rev.
Edward T. Ford, a Congregational minister of
Tacoma, Washington.
Augustus Turner Jones began his education
in the public schools and then spent part of two
years as a pupil at the Adelphian Academy
(then conducted by the Lopmis Brothers) in his
home town, which at that time was known as
North Bridgewater. Then he entered Phillips
Andover Academy, of which Dr. Samuel H.
Taylor was principal at the time, and in 1854
completed the regular classical course to fit him-
self for college. The same year he entered Am-
herst, but in 1856 changed to Yale, where he
was graduated with high rank in 1858. For a
few years following his graduation he engaged
in teaching. Immediately upon leaving col-
lege he was given a position as classical instruc-
tor in a large training school at Stamford,
Conn., President Woolsey of Yale recommend-
ing him for this work, in which he continued
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one year. Then he was ofEered the principal-
ship of a new institution which had been re-
cently opened in Haydenville, Mass., and which
he helped to place upon a practical and sub-
stantial footing, resigning after two years to
return home and enter the field of journalism.
In this line Mr. Jones made a name and place
for himself in the history of North Bridge-
water and Brockton which can never be forgot-
ten. He became proprietor and editorial man-
ager of the North Brid^ewater Gazette in 1863,
and for twenty years devoted his best efforts to
the welfare of that paper, which during that
period attained an amazing influence and popu-
larity. When he took charge it was a weekly
journal, of limited- circulation but great possi-
bilities, which Mr. Jones developed to the ut-
most. He was sincere and enthusiastic, and he
had ideals of what a newspaper should be in
its effect upon the morals and welfare of the
community. With perception, intelligence and
education beyond the ordinary, he had the
vision to see the needs of the growing town and
the demands which would be made upon his
journal, and he led progressive thought and
movements for many years, with an independ-
ence of spirit and a conscientious regard for the
right which won him the respect and support
of the best elements in all classes. When Mr.
Jones sold out and severed his connection with
the newspaper business, Sept. 1, 1884, he left
the Gazette firmly established both in a finan-
cial sense and in its position in the community,
for no paper in the State bore a higher reputa-
tion for honesty of purpose and unquestioned
standards. From 1881 it had been published
daily as the Evening Gazette, the North Bridge-
water Weekly Gazette being continued mean-
while. Both were sold to A. M. Bridgman.
The building in which the weekly and daily
issues were published stood at the northeast
corner of Main and Ward streets, and in 1910
was replaced by the present Marston block.
During this time Mr. Jones had personally
entered heartily into various enterprises des-
tined to keep the town and city abreast of the
times. In 1864, the year after he returned to
North Bridgewater, he was chosen a member
of the school committee, upon which he served
twelve years between that time and 1880, with
a devotion only too rarely found in public offi-
cials. In March, 1864, he was a member of a
committee appointed to consider the advisability
of establishing a high school in the town. In
1872 he was appointed postmaster by President
Grant, and had the appointment renewed in
1873, serving until 1876, when he resigned this
office. In 1874 he was elected first town mod-
erator and frequently thereafter, and his ability
as a presiding officer over public assemblies was
so generally recognized that he was often called
upon to act as such, and he was often chairman
at political conventions and various public
gatherings. In 1878, when it was decided to
establish the public water works in Brockton,
he was selected a member of the committee to
decide upon the best source of supply and the
best system to adopt, and he took an active part
in establishing what was for many years the
city's source of supply — the Avon reservoir. He
was appointed a member of the committee cho-
sen by the town to frame a city charter for
Brockton and represented his ward in 1882 in
the first city council, of which he was unani-
mously chosen president. In 1886, 1887 and
1891 he was elected tax collector, and in 1887
became city treasurer, which office he held for
seven years. That he retained the public con-
fidence and the good will of the community
throughout his municipal service betokens the
liigh regard he showed for the interests of his
fellow citizens in all these positions of trust.
Mr. Jones cast his first Presidential vote
for John C. Fremont, and he was a lifelong
Eepublican in political faith. He was always
a faithful party worker, and served several
years as chairman of the Eepublican town com-
mittee before Brockton became a city; he was
often called upon to preside at conventions in
his district. He was a prominent member of
various clubs and social organizations, belong-
ing to the Commercial Club, the Old Colony
Congregational Club, the Old Bridgewater His-
torical Society, and to various Masonic bodies.
In 1864 he joined Paul Eevere Lodge, A. F.
& A. M., and he joined the higher bodies up
to and including Bay State Commandery, K.
T. ; he held the office of generalissimo in the
commandery, the next to the highest office, but
declined to serve as eminent commander be-
cause of the pressure of business interests. He
was among the original promoters and members
of the Old Colony Congregational Club, served
five years as its secretary and was president for
two years. He was a member of the board of
directors of the Plymouth County Safe Deposit
& Trust Company and its successor. The Plym-
outh County Trust Company, from the time of
its organization. He was practically the founder
of the People's Savings Bank, which opened
for business Aug. 1, 1895, and served as treas-
urer from that time until his death. In fact,
he was always the leading spirit in this institu-
tion, which proved to be such a valuable factor
in the prosperity of Brockton, and into whose
success he put so much of his own personality.
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581
Mr. Jones lived to see this bank grow to be
one of the city's leading financial institutions,
passing away a few months after its removal
to its present commodious and substantial bank-
ing house, erected for that purpose.
As' intimated, Mr. Jones's church connection
was with the Congregationalists. He was one
of the most efScient workers and members of
the Porter Congregational Church, to which he
belonged nearly fifty-four years, served as dea-
con several years, as superintendent of the Sun-
day school, Sunday school teacher fifty years,
chairman of the board of finance, member of
the parish committee (nineteen years), repre-
sented the church in various ecclesiastical gath-
erings, and acted in other important official
connections, besides contributing liberally to all
the church enterprises.
Mr. Jones's death, which occurred suddenly
March 8, 1909, near the close of liis seventy-
seventh year, was felt in so many circles in
Brockton that it might be said there was hardly
a phase of the life of the city unaffected by
the event. The flag over the city hall floated
at half mast during the funeral services, the
city hall was closed for an hour and business
was suspended in all the municipal offices, while
many representatives of the city government,
including the mayor, attended the funeral, offi-
cially or unofficially ; the People's Savings Bank
closed at noon, and the Plymouth County Trust
Company observed the hour of the services.
Both banks sent resolutions of sympathy to the
family, and in every way showed the losa they
suffered in Mr. Jones's decease. The twenty-
four trustees of the People's Savings Bank
were present, as well as officers and prominent
men from his church, employes, fellow workers,
officers and members of Paul Eevere Lodge, and
representatives from the other Masonic bodies
with which he was affiliated. The services were
conducted by Rev. A. M. Hyde, pastoT of Por-
ter Church, from whose sermon we make the
following quotation :
"He was a farseeing builder, a master build-
er, a builder of institutions, a builder ■ whose
beautiful temples are about him everywhere.
Living all his life here, building here
for seventy-seven years, he has built himself into
almost everything that is worthy and beautiful.
We may say of him as they said of Sir Chris-
topher Wren, in the great cathedral, 'If you
would see his monument look about you.' The
editor who for nearly a quarter of a century
molded the sentiment of the city to noble and
lofty ideals, the moderator of town meetings,
the leader of the meeting that gave the city its
name, a member of the committee that framed
the city charter and gave the city its form of
government, the first president of the council,
a member of the committee that established the
high school, a member of the committee that
gave us our water supply, postmaster, treasurer,
school committeeman, business man, church
man — where is there another who has done what
he has done? Through all these has been an
accuracy of mind that is as great a marvel as
a matter of genius as his honesty of heart is
a marvel as a matter of experience. His clear-
ness of mind, his voluminous reading, his
knowledge of men, all fitted him to hold the
highest positions. To him promotion always
called. But he shrank from it. He declined it
again and again. He was ambitious only to
do the duty next to him which seemed to be
given him of God to do. • He cared to make our
city truly great ; and caring not for greatness
for himself he found greatness in being great
to others
"He was a philanthropist from the very be-
ginning. Making his way with marked honor
through Phillips Academy and Amherst and
Yale Colleges, receiving his diploma when he
was twenty-six years of age, he entered the
school room. He was a born teacher. There
are men and women in middle life who date
their first tuition and abiding thirst for knowl-
edge to the guidance and the inspiration of this
faithful and skillful teacher. A lover of books,
gathering from the libraries written on the
scrolls of nature, abiding much in the school
room of the fields, from these silent companion-
ships there passed through him to the circles
of his human intercourse wonderful parables
of life, revealing thoughts as rich and beautiful
as the petals, the clusters, the ruby and golden
spheres he knew so well.
"A philanthropist from the first, he was ^
philanthropist always. Each new day was a
new door to new philanthropies. He was al-
ways giving. He gave his money; he gave his
time; he gave his sympathy; he gave himself.
And he gave always with the clear-sightedness
of a systematic business man who could be
trusted with the finances of a city or a bank.
He gave with a view of investing his money and
himself where they would do the most for hu-
manity. His life itself was a gift. His very
business life was lived in love. He was in
charge of other people's finances. Millions of
dollars have passed through his hands. Yet
not a penny was ever charged for any selfish
interests of his own. Opportunity came again
and again when he might have used his place
for enriching himself. He never did it. He
used it all to serve. His bank was like a draw-
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ing room in its courtesies to the most humble
aud the most poor."
The following editorial appeared in the
Brockton Enterprise: "Death's summons came
with startling suddenness last evening to a citi-
zen who has had very much to do with the up-
building of Brockton from an ambitious town
into the 'no mean city' of to-day. A life is
ended that spanned over threescore and ten
years, and they were years of unbroken activity
along lines of endeavor that contributed to
everything good in the life of this community.
"Augustus T. Jones was a man of high
ideals, of strict probity, of unvarying courtesy
in his intercourse with his fellows. As an editor
he made the Gazette a newspaper of dignity and
influence. As moderator of town meetings, as
postmaster, as school committeeman, as com-
mon councilman, as city treasurer, he served
the people faithfully and capably. In his
church he was loyal and steadfast; a kindly
neighbor, a helpful friend, a home lover de-
voted to his family. The People's Savings
Bank, of which he \^as the founder, was a
dream he saw fulfilled in his later years. He
gloried in its development, gave to it the best
of his hands and brains and heart, and when
it was moved to its fine new home but a few
weeks ago he was proud and happy in the ful-
fillment of his hopes.
"When the Enterprise was launched as a
competitor of the Gazette back in 1879, with
little capital beyond ambition and determina-
tion, it found Mr. Jones a fair and friendly
contemporary. In fact for a time, until the
struggling venture was able to walk alone, the
Enterprise was printed on his press. The two
papers, and the men who made them, were
always on good terms.
"It seems to us that the end came to this
useful, busy, honorable career just as he might
have wished it. To the very last he was 'in the
harness,' and it was a harness he wore because
he loved to be honorably occupied. He had
attained much that made life sweet and satisfy-
ing. He had earned the esteem and confidence
of his fellow citizens, had held the deeper love
of those who knew him best.
"What higher rewards can this life offer?"
Mr. Jones was laid to rest in Union ceme-
tery, his son and his three sons-in-law offici-
a:ting as pallbearers.
On Dec. 2, 1860, Mr. Jones was married to
Helen Eveleth, daughter of Moses and Betsey
(Preble) Eveleth, of New Gloucester, Maine,
and a graduate of Mount Holyoke College,
class of 1856. There were two children by this
union: (1) Bertha Eveleth, born Sept. 7,
1866, was graduated from the art department
at Wellesley College in 1889 and was married
in 1894 to Edward Dwight Blodgett, a gradu-
ate of Amherst, 1887, who is now editor of
the Daily Standard, at Cortland, N. Y., where
they reside. They are the parents of two chil-
dren, Eleanor Dickinson and Edward Eveleth
Blodgett. (2) Lizzie Lee, born Sept. 25, 1868,
who graduated from Wellesley College in 1891,
was a teacher for several years, and is now the
wife of J. Howard Field, vice president of the
C. A. Eaton Shoe Company, of Brockton,
where they reside. They are the parents of
three children, Helen Eleveth, John Howard,
Jr., and Elizabeth Field. The mother of these
children died in 1875, and Mr. Jones married
(second) March 20, 1876, Mrs. Harriet
(Drake) Pettee, daughter of Deacon Ebenezer
and Lucy (Reed) Drake, and widow of S.
Cardner Pettee, of Stoughton, Mass., by whom
she had one daughter, Alice Gardner Pettee,
born Nov. 20, 1864, in Stoughton, who gradu-
ated from Wellesley College, and is now the wife
of Eev. George P. Eastman, of Framingham,
Mass., now located at Orange, N. J., where he
is pastor of the Orange Valley Congregational
Church. They are the parents of four children,
Gardner Pettee, Roger, Philip Yale and Har-
riet Drake Eastman. Mr. Jones and his sec-
•nd wife had one son, Everett Augustus, born
Aug. 16, 1878, who was graduated from the
Brockton high school in 1896, and from Am-
herst College in 1900; he is engaged in the
manufacture of shoe dressings and shoe manu-
facturers' supplies under the firm name of, E.
A. Jones & Co.. at Brockton, where he resides,
unmarried, making his home with his widowed
mother. The family residence is at No. 182
North Main street.
WILLIAMS (Taunton family) . In the an-
cient town of Taunton there are still represen-
tatives of the famous Cromwell-Williams line
of the family bearing the latter name. Refer-
ence is made to some of the posterity of Rich-
ard Williams, who with Oliver Cromwell, the
"Lord Protector," sprang from the same an-
cestor, William Cromwell, a son of Robert Crom-
well, of Carleton upon Trent, a Lancastrian
who was killed at the battle of Towton, in 1461.
Many years ago the statement was made,
and afterward vehemently doubted, that the
family of Richard Williams of Taunton was
connected by ties of blood with that of Oliver
Cromwell. This fact was established by the
wonderful patience and perseverance, and at
considerable expense, of the late Hon. Joseph
Hartwell Williams, of Augusta, Maine, a former
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583
governor of Maine, a direct descendant of Rich-
ard Williams of Taunton. The following is an
account of this connection taken from the New
England Historical and Genealogical Register
of April, 1897, abridged by the late Josiah H.
Drummond, LL. D., of Portland, Maine.
Cromwell. The Cromwell line dates
from Alden de Cromwell, who lived in the time
of William the Conqueror. His son was Hugh
de Cromwell, and from him descended ten
Ralph de Cromwells in as many successive gen-
erations; but the tenth Ralph died without
issue.
The seventh Ralph de Cromwell married, in
1351, Amicia, daughter of Robert Berer, M. P.
for Notts; besides the eighth Ralph, they had
several other sons, among whom was Ulker
Cromwell, of Hucknall Torkard, Notts. Ulker
had Richard ; and he, John of Cromwell House,
Carleton upon Trent, Notts; and he, Robert;
the names of the wives are not given.
(I) Robert Cromwell, of Carleton upon
Trent, was a Lancastrian. He was killed at the
battle of Towton, in 1461. His lease of Crom-
well House was seized by Sir Humphrey
Bourchier, Yorkist, who was the husband of
Joan Stanhope, the granddaughter of the ninth
Ralph, through his daughter Matilda, wife of
Sir Richard Stanhope.
Robert left a son William, the ancestor of
Robert Cromwell, and a daughter Margaret,
the ancestor of both Oliver Cromwell and Rich-
ard Williams of Taunton.
(II) William Cromwell, of the prebend of
Palace Hall, Norwalk, Notts, settled in Put-
ney, Surrey, 1453. He married Margaret
Smyth, daughter of John Smyth, of Norwalk.
Notts, and had John.
Margaret Cromwell married William Smyth
(son of John). They had son Richard Smyth
and daughter Joan Smyth.
(III) John Cromwell, son of William, mar-
ried his cousin, Joan Smyth. He was a Lan-
castrian, and his lands at Putney were seized
by Archbishop Bourchier, Lord of the Manor of
Wimbledon, and his lease of Palace Hall, Nor-
walk, Notts, remised by Lord Chancellor
Bourchier. They had, among other children,
Walter Cromwell.
Richard Smyth, of Rockhampton, Putney, by
wife, Isabella, had daughter Margaret Smyth,
who married John Williams, fourth in descent
from Howell Williams, the head of the Wil-
liams line.
(IV) Walter Cromwell married in 1474 the
daughter of Glossop of Wirksworth, Derby-
shire; in 1472 he'claimed and was admitted to
two virgates (thirty acres) of land at Putney;
in 1499 Archbishop Morton, Lord of Wimble-
don Manor, gave him six virgates (ninety acres)
of land in Putney as a solatium for the prop-
erty taken from his father by the Bourchier
Yorkists. He died in 1516, leaving among
other children Katherine Cromwell.
(V) Katherine Cromwell married Morgan
Williams, fifth in descent from Howell Wil-
liams, and had a son Richard Williams, born
about 1495.
(VI) Sir Richard Williams, alias Cromwell,
married in 1518 Frances Murfyn. He died at
Stepney in 1547 and was buried in 6t. St.
Helen's Church, London. He left son Henry
Cromwell, alias Williams.
(VII) Sir Henry Cromwell, alias Williams
(called "The Golden Knight"), of Hinchen-
brook, Huntingdop, married Joan, daughter of
Sir Ralph Warren, Lord Mayor of London, and
they had : Sir Oliver, Robert, Henry, Richard,
Philip, Joan, Elizabeth and Prances.
(VIII) Robert Cromwell, of Huntingdon,
brewer, married Elizabeth Stewart, widow of
William Lynn, of Bassingbourn, and their fifth
child was Oliver Cromwell, the "Lord Protec-
tor."
Robert's sister, Elizabeth Cromwell, married
William Hampden, of Great Hampden, Bucks,
and among their children were John Hampden,
"The Patriot," and Richard Hampden.
Williams. Governor Williams, through his
assistants, traced the Williams line back to
Howell Williams, Lord of Ribour.
(I) Howell Williams, Lord of Ribour, mar-
ried Wenlion, daughteT»and heiress of Llyne ap
Jevan, of Rady, and had son Morgan Williams.
(II) Morgan Williams, of Lanishen, Gla-
morgan, married Joan Batton, daughter of
Thomas, of Glamorgan, and they had Thomas
and Jevan.
Jevan Williams married Margaret, daughter
of Jenkin Kemeys, of Bagwye Man. They had
son William Williams of Lanishen, bailiff for
Henry VIII., who (wife not knovra) was the
father of Morgan Williams, of Lanishen, Gla-
morgan, and later of Putney, Surrey, ale brewer
at Putney, Wansworth, and Greenwich, for
Henry VII. and Henry VIII., and the husband
in 1494 of Katherine Cromwell — see ante
Cromwell, No. 5, et seq.
(III) Thomas Williams, of Lanishen, Gla-
morgan, died at St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, Lon-
don ; was buried in the church there, "with his
brass on stone."
(IV) John Williams, steward of Wimbledon
Manor, Surrey, married Margaret Smyth,
daughter of Richard Smyth, and granddaughter
of Margaret Cromwell (see ante Cromwell,
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Nos. 1, 2). He died at Mortlake in 1502, and
she in 1501. They had two sons, John and
Richard.
John Williams, born in 1485, married Joan
Wykys, daughter of Henry Wykys, of Bolleys
Park Chertney, and sister of Elizabeth Wykys,
who married Thomas Cromwell (brother of
Katharine), secretary to Henry VIII., Lord
Cromwell of Oakham, Earl of Essex.
(V) Richard Williams was born in Rock-
ampton in 1487. He settled at Monmouth and
Dixton, Mon., where he died in 1559. He was
twice married. The name of his first wife is
not known. She is credited with one daughter,
Joan. His second wife. Christian, had two
daughters, Reece and Ruth, and one son, John.
(VI) John Williams, of Huntingdon, near
Wotton under Edge, Gloucester, died in 1579,
leaving son William. No other particulars of
this family are given.
(VII) William Williams, of Huntingdon,
married Nov. 15, 1585, Jane Shepherd. She
died about 1600, a child of hers having been
baptized Dec. 2, 1599. He married Dec. 4,
1603, Jane Woodward. She died Feb. 2, 1614,
and he in 1618. The first child by his second
marriage, bom in January, 1606, was Richard
Williams, of Taunton.
Of the change of his name by Sir Richard
Williams, Governor Williams said: "Oliver
Cromwell in the male line of Morgan Williams
of Glamorganshire. His great-grandfather. Sir
Richard Williams, assumed the name of 'Crom-
well,' it is true, but not until in mature years
he had distinguished himself in the public ser-
vice (temp. Henry VIII.), under the patronage
of his uncle, Thomas Cromwell (Vicar General,
1535), whom he proposed to honor by the adop-
tion of his name. In fact, ever afterwards. Sir
Richard used to sign himself, 'Richard Crom-
well, alias Williams' ; and his sons and grand-
sons, and Oliver Cromwell himself, in his youth
(*1620), used to sign in the same manner. In
important grants from the crown to Sir Rich-
ard (29 and 31, Henry VIII.) the grantee's
name appears in both forms, 'Cromwell alias
Williams' and 'Williams alias Cromwell.' "
It is not believed that, in the light of Gov-
ernor Williams's researches, the relationship of
Richard Williams of Taunton and the Crom-
well family will again be questioned.
(VIII) Richard Williams, son of William
Williams, of Huntingdon, and his wife Jane
(Woodward), born in January, 1606, married
in Gloucester, England, Feb. 11, 1633, Frances
Dighton, daughter of Dr. Jolm Dighton, and
for whom the town of Dighton, Mass., was
named. Richard Williams came to America
and was among the first purchasers of Taun-
ton. He was a man of good abilities; was
deputy to the General Court of Plymouth Col-
ony from 1645 to 1665; selectman in 1666 and
1667. He was one of the proprietors of the
"New Purchase," now Dighton. He was a
member and deacon of the First Church. He
died in the year 1693, aged eighty-seven.
The children born to Richard and his wife
Prances (Dighton) — the eldest two being born
while the parents were living in Gloucester, in
the parish of Whitcombe Magna, and both of
whom died when young — were: (1) John was
baptized March 27, 1634. (3) Elizabeth was
baptized Feb. 7, 1635-36. (3) Samuel married
Jane Gilbert, and is mentioned farther on. (4)
Joseph married (first) Nov. 28, 1667, Elizabeth
Watson, and (second) Abigail Newland, and
is mentioned later. (5) Nathaniel married in
1668 Elizabeth Rogers, of Duxbury, and their
children were: John (bom Aug. 37, 1675),
Nathaniel (born April 9, 1679) and Elizabeth
(born April 18, 1686). (6) Thomas and his
wife Mary had children: Mary (born 1680),
Jonathan (born 1683, married Elizabeth Leon-
ard), Sarah (born 1685, married James Hall),
Macy (born 1687), Hannah (born 1689),
Bethia (bom 1692), Mehetabel (born 1695)
and Damaris (born 1698). (7) Benjamin mar-
ried March 18, 1689-90, Rebecca Macy, and
their children were : Rebecca (bom Nov. 27,
1690), Josiah (bora Nov. 7, 1692), Benjamin
(born July 31, 1695) and John (born March
27, 1699). (8) Elizabeth, bom about 1647,
married John Bird, of Dorchester. (9) Han-
nah married John Parmenter, of Boston.
(IX) Samuel Williams, second son of Rich-
ard and Frances, first of Taunton, married
Jane Gilbert. Their children were: Seth (bom
1675, died 1761), Samuel, Daniel, Mary, Sarah
and Hannah.
(X) Seth Williams, son of Samuel and Jane,
born 1675, was chief justice of the county court
of Common Pleas from 1754 till 1761, the time
of his death. His children were: James;
David; Abiel; Benjamin, bom Feb. 25, 1721,
who died March 18, 1784; Mary; Elizabeth;
Susanna; Rachel, and Jemima.
(XI) James Williams, son of Seth Wil-
liams, above, died in 1765. Ete was a judge of
the court of Common Pleas after the death of
his father; and was also appointed register of
deeds in 1746 (when the records were removed
from Bristol, then set off from Massacliusetts
to Rhode Island), serving till his death.
(XI) Benjamin Williams, son of Seth, born
Feb. 25, 1721, was appointed judge of Probate
for the .county in 1778, and held the office till
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585
'lis death, March 18, 1784. His children were:
Lemuel, who became a member of Congress;
Benjamin, born July 17, 1757; Joshua; Elisha;
Ann, who married a Tubs ; and Mary, who mar-
ried Rev. Mr. Spaulding.
(XII) Benjamin Williams, son of Benjamin,
was bom July 17, 1757, and died Jan. 29,
1830. On Nov. 28, 1793,; he married Lydia
Williams, who was born Jan. 24, 1774, and died
Sept. 11, 1845, youngest daughter of James
Williams and sister of Judge John M. Williams.
The children of this marriage were: Ann, born
Feb. 8, 1795, who died in July, 1797; Myra,
born Aug. 11, 1796, who married Rev. Samuel
Presbrey; Benjamin F., born July 5, 1798;
George W., born July 13, 1800; Sydney, born
Feb. 13, 1803; Henry, born Nov. 30, 1805;
Edgar, born 1807, who died April 6, 1808;
Lydia, born Jan. 27, 1809, who died Sept. 7,
1830; and Anna Augusta, born Aug. 24, 1811,
who died Dec. 2, 1838.
(XIII) George W. Williams, son of Benja-
min and Lydia, was born July 13, 1800. He
married Emma Willis, and they became the
parents of children born as follows: Emma
Augusta, March 11, 1827; George Edgar, Aug.
16, 1829; Julius, Jan. 11, 1834; Andrew,
Aug. 28, 1837; Lewis, April 25, 1840; Felix,
Oct. 17, 1843 ; Arthur Herbert, Feb. 23, 1846.
(XIV) Lewis Williams, son of George W.
and Emma (Willis), was born in Taunton
April 25, 1840, and died there Dec. 23, 1902.
He was brought up in Weir village, and at-
tended Bristol Academy. After his school days
he promptly entered upon business life and in
the early seventies was busy in the old firm of
Staples & Phillips, who were the leading ship-
pers, vessel owners, and coal movers and sellers
in southeastern New England for a long term
of years. On the dissolution of that firm he
joined his fortunes with those of the Staples
Coal Company, and vigorously assisted in de-
veloping the business of that corporation until
it became one of the leaders in New England in
moving and selling coal, owning shipping (both
barges and tugs) and constantly enlarging its
sphere of operations until they covered a great
portion of this territory, both coast and interior.
A public-spirited and open-handed citizen,
Mr. Williams was among the foremost in vari-
ous enterprises to increase the commercial
facilities of the city, add to its manufactories,
and give employment to workers. His advice
was always sound and his foresight good. He
was interested as a part owner in the West Sil-
ver Works, the Dighton Furnace, the Taunton
Crucible Works,- and he owned stock in the Carr
and Winthrop Mills, of Taunton, and was also
interested as a heavy stockholder in a number
of Fall River mills. He never shirked his ob-
ligation to do his part in charitable work, and
no one who was really needy, no deserving pub-
lic benefaction, ever called upon him in vain.
He was brought up in the old First Church,
believed in it and stood by it always, both by
his presence at its services and in every other
way to strengthen its growth and its power as
an element of good in the city and the denomi-
nation.
On Sept. 22, 1870, Mr. Williams married
Adelaide N. Staples, daughter of Sylvanus N.
and D. Adaline (Bood) Staples, and one
daughter blessed this union, Hattie Staples,
who married Frederick Ludlam. Mr. Wil-
liai^s's wide family and personal connections
made the termination of his useful and busy
life and the loss of his kindly and courteous
personality far-reaching, his high citizenship
touched and influenced so many sides of the
community's social, religious and business life.
(IX) Joseph Williams, son of Richard and
Frances (Dighton), married (first) Elizabeth
Watson and (second) Abigail Newland. His
children were: Elizabeth, Richard, Mehetabel,
Joseph, Benjamin, Ebenezer, Phebe and Rich-
ard (2).
(X) Richard Williams, son of Joseph and
Elizabeth (Watson), born March 26, 1689, died
in 1727. He married (first) Anna Wilbore
and (second) Jan. 1, 1740, Elizabeth Merick.
His children were: George, born in Taunton
in 1717; Richard, and Ebenezer.
(XI) Col. George Williams, of Taunton, son
of Richard and Anna (Wilbore), bom in Taun-
ton in 1717, married Jan. 6, 1736-37, Sarah
Hodges, born in 1715 in Taunton, Mass., daugh-
ter of Henry and Sarah (Leonard) Hodges, of
Taunton. The second marriage of Col. George
Williams was to Mrs. Nancy Dean. He died
in 1803, and his wife in 1797. His nine chil-
dren, all born in Taunton, were: (1) Phebe,
born in 1737, died in 1813, in Taunton. She
married (first) John Hart, of Taunton, son
of Lawrence and Elizabeth Hart, (second) Feb.
15, 1759, Simeon Tisdale, of Taunton, son of
Joseph and Ruth (Reed) Tisdale, and (third)
April 27. 1763, Eliphaz Harlow, of Taunton,
son of Eleazer^nd Hannah (Delano) Harlow.
(2) Sarah, bom in 1739, died in 1830. On
April 14, 1757, she married Richard Godfrey,
of Taunton, son of Richard and Theodora
(Dean) Godfrey. (3) A child, born in 1741,
died May 5, 1750, in Taunton. (4) George,
born Aug. 18, 1745, died Feb. 23, 1814, at
Raynham, Mass. He married Oct. 2, 1766,
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Bathsheba King, daughter of Philip and Abi-
gail (Williams) King, of Raynham. (5) Anna,
bom in 1747, died Nov. 2, 1833, at Taunton.
She married (first) Sept. 16, 1763. Elisha
Codding, and (second) July 19, 1788, Jona-
than French, of Berkley, Mass.^ son of Ebenezer
and Keziah French, of Berkley. (6) Ebenezer,
born in 1751, died April 30, 1814. He married
March 7, 1769, at Raynham, Sarah Ellis, of
Raynham, daughter of Philip Ellis. (7) Lydia,
born in 1753, died March 5, 1773. She mar-
ried Aug. 6, 1772, Isaac Tobey, of Berkley, son
of Rev. Samuel and Batljsheba (Crocker)
Tobey, of Berkley. (8) Richard, born in 1755
or 1757, died in Taunton in 1814. He mar-
ried Hannah Padelford, of Taunton, daughter
of Edward and Sarah (Briggs) Padelford. ,(9)
Abiather, born June 4, 1759, died Oct. 4, 1760,
at Taunton.
Col. George Williams lived in Taunton, on
the east side of the Taunton river, on what is
now Williams street. He was a man of prop-
erty, owning a large landed estate. From the
soldierly qualities which he evidently possessed
it seems that he served in the war with the
French in 1744-45; and perhaps in the first
year of the French and Indian war. But the
record thus far found of his military service
begins in 1757. He was then ensign of a com-
pany stationed 'at Fort William Henry, when
the French and Indians under Montcalm in-
vested the place Aug. 3, 1757. He was sent
out at the beginning of the siege under Captain
Saltonstall, but his party was driven back, and
he himself taken prisoner. He was released not
long after, and returned to Taunton. He rose
to the rank of captain of the 3d Taunton Com-
pany, and in 1772 was major of the 3d Bristol
County regiment. On Feb. 8, 1776. he was
elected colonel of this regiment by the Legis-
lature, and commissioned Feb. 7th, and did
good service during the Revolution. His prin-
cipal military operations were in Rhode Island,
which State was constantly harried and threat-
ened by the British navy. He was a prominent
member of the Taunton committee of Corre-
spondence, Inspection and Safety for several
years, beginning in 1775, and was selectman of
"Taunton in 1780. His son, Richard Williams,
was one of the minute-men of the company of
Capt. James Williams, Jr., wbo marched to
Roxbury at the news of the battle of Lexington.
During the lasl six months of 1776 he was
serving at the defense of Boston, being sergeant
under Capt. Joshua Wilbore. He very likely
served at other times, but the Revolutionary
rolls are not sufficiently explicit for his iden-
tification among the many soldiers of this name.
(XII) George Williams, son of Col. George
and Sarah (Hodges), was born in Taunton
Aug. 18, 1745, and died in Raynham Feb. 23,
1814. He married, Oct. 2, 1766, Bathsheba
King, daughter of Philip and Abigail King.
She was born in Raynham March 31, 1744,
and died in Taunton May 26, 1839. Their
children, all born in Raynham, were: Sarah,
born July 27, 1767; George, Feb. 26, 1769; a
son. May 6, 1771; Abiathar, Jan. 8, 1773;
Bathsheba, Jan. 25, 1775; Melancy, Feb. 28,
1777; Francis, Oct. 13, 1779; Narcissus, Sept.
13, 1781; Enoch, Dec. 29, 1783; and Samuel
K., Nov. 17, 1785. George Williams was a man
of fine personal appearance, according to the
accounts handed down in the family. He was
a farmer, and owned a fine property. While
it is certain he served in the Revolution, it is
difBcult to pick out his record from the many
of the same name. Possibly he served in New
York State from about the beginning of 1776
until December, being or becoming a sergeant
in Capt. James Allen's company. Col. Simeon
Carey's regiment. He certainly was quarter-
master of his father's regii^ent in Rhode Island,
December, 1776, and January, 1777.
(XIII) Abiathar Williams, son of George
and Bathsheba, was bom in Raynham Jan. 8,
1773. He married Anna Dean, daughter of
Joseph and Anna (Strowbridge) Dean, and
they had eleven children, as follows: Anna,
born Jan. 19, 1803; Maria, Nov. 1, 1804; Eliza-
beth Jane, Sept. 1, 1806 ; Bathsheba, Sept. 11,
1808; Harriet Dean, Nov. 17, 1810; Frances
Amelia, Jan. 30, 1813; Abiathar K., March
11. 1815 ; Helen Melancy, July 6, 1817 ; George
Bradford, Nov. 7, 1819 ; Keziah, Nov. 28, 1821;
and George Bradford (2), Nov. 12, 1824.
Abiathar Williams was known as "Capt." Wil-
liams. He ran a sloop from Taunton to New
York from the time he was fifteen years of
age till he was fifty-five. He made his sons
Abiathar K. and George B. his partners. A
successful and influential citizen, he represented
his town in the General Court, and held vari-
ous local offices. He died in June, 1856, and
his wife in 1858.
(XIV) Geohge B. Williams, son of Abia-
thar and Anna, was born Nov. 12, 1824. He
was educated in tlie Taunton public schools and
always prided himself on being an old academy
boy. He became one of the stanch monied
men of Taunton. Starting early in life with
a goodly inheritance, he constantly added to it
by thrift and good management until gradu-
ally he became the largest real estate owner in
Taunton. Like his father, he was engaged in
the lumber business. In the early days lum-
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587
ber was discharged far down the river, and
rafted up, and Mr. Williams was a prominent
figure on all of those rafts after he became
old enough to go into business. He became his
father's partner, and his name appeared in the
firm through all its changes until his retire-
ment in 1887. He was a sturdy specimen of
old New England stock. He was quiet and
unpretentious in manner, keen in business af-
fairs, and strictly honest in all his dealings.
It would seem that no man could leave a bet-
ter heritage to his family. Like his ancestors
he was a stanch supporter of the First Congre-
gational Society of Taunton.
Mr. Williams married Sarah Carver Barstow,
daughter of Charles Carver Barstow and sister
of the late Charles M. C. Barstow. They
reared a large family, born as follows: George
B., July 29, 1849; Charles K., Feb. 9, 1851;
Sarah B., Sept. 4, 1852; Frederick B., Aug.
4, 1854; Abiathar G., Feb. 4, 1856; Enos D.,
Oct. 30, 1857; Charlotte A., Oct. 20, 1858;
Alice M., Sept. 18, 1860 ; Franklin D., Nov. 21,
,1861; Enos D. (2), Aug. 9, 1863; Alfred B.,
July 8, 1865; Ida L., Oct. 11, 1868.
Simeon Williams, of Taunton, son of John
and Hannah (Robinson) Williams, born Feb.
21, 1716-1717, in Taunton, died Sept. 10, 1799.
He was twice married. His first wife, Zipporah
Crane, of Raynham, whom he married Aug. 86,
1742, died in Taunton May 21, 1748. In 1750
he married (second) Waitstill Hodges, born
Dec. 21, 1723, died Nov. 21, 1820, at Taunton.
Their children were: Zipporah, bom Feb. 5,
1750-51, who died Oct. 28, 1812; Lurana, born
Dec. 30, 1752; Nathaniel, born March 29,
1755; Waitstill, bom Aug. 10, 1758, who died
Sept. 16, 1776, at Taunton; Hannah, born Jan.
22, 1761, who died Feb. 24, 1846; Levi, born
Aug. 25, 1763, who died Aug. 5, l')k64; Jemima,
born June 30, 1765, who died Dec. 18, 1793, at
Raynham; and Cynthia, bom Sept. 9, 1767,
who died Dec. 6, 1854.
Deacon Simeon Williams was one of the
many members of the First Church of Taunton
who withdrew from the Society in 1792, and
founded the Westville Congregational Church.
The cause of the withdrawal was dissatisfaction
with the new minister selected for the original
church — dissatisfaction which seems to have
been well grounded. Deacon Simeon was a
man of ability, strength of character and in-
fluence. He doubtless served in the French
and Indian war, for, being corporal of the 2d
Company (Taunton). April 6, 1757, according
to the roster of that date, he rose to be lieuten-
ant and captain of the company. As he was on
the alarm (or reserve) list Dec. 6, 1776, he
probably saw no active service in the Revolu-
tion. But in 1775, 1776, 1777 and 1778, pos-
sibly also other years, he was elected a mem-
ber of the Taunton committee of Correspond-
ence, Inspection and Safety, whose multifarious
duties included the discipline and reformation
of Tories, the care of confiscated property, the
regulation of prices, the obtaining of supplies
for the American troops, etc. He was select-
man of Taunton from 1760 to 1766, in 1770
and in 1777.
Nathaniel Williams, of Taunton, son of Dea-
con Simeon and Waitstill (Hodges), born
March 29, 1755, at Taunton, died there June
30, 1829. He married April 20, 1780, Norton
Lucilda Hodges, born May 27, 1760, at Norton,
Mass., died May 7, 1847, at Taunton. Their
children were : Lucilda, born May 16, *1781,
died Feb. 8, 1869; Pollv, bom May 2, 1783,
died May 30, 1860; John, born Sept. 2, 1785,
died March 21, 1850; Charlotte, born April
26, 1789, died Oct. 24, 1873; Susannah, bom
April 24, 1791, died May 13, 1884; Philander,
bom Oct. 18, 1793, died Nov. 16, 1796;
Amelia, born May 7, 1796, died May 17, 1838;
Nathaniel Hodges, born Nov. 11, 1798, died
Dec. 25, 1879; Simeon, bom May 31, 1801,
died Aug. 10, 1847; and Cassander, bom Dec.
9, 1804, died Jan. 8, 1873. Nathaniel Wil-
liams was one of the minute-men who, at the
news of the battle of Lexington, marched to-
ward Boston under Capt. Robert Grossman.
In December, 1776, and January, 1777, he
served as corporal under Capt. Samuel Fales
in Rhode Island. In 1778 he served two terms,
aggregating four and a half months, as ser-
geant in Rhode Island of the companies of
Capt. Samuel Fales and of Capt. Josiah Crock-
er. He may have served other terms, for the
name occurs repeatedly in the records, but as
in other cases the rolls are not explicit enough
to identify the different individuals of the same
name.
LEONARD. The Leonard family has been
of note in this country since the coming of the
two or three brothers to the American colonies
in the early settlement of New England, and
beyond the ocean it is one ancient and dis-
tinguished. In several of the towns of Bristol
county, this Commonwealth, with the Leonards
of which region of country this article is to deal,
they as a faniily with their allied connections
through marriage have been of especial note,
one historic and distinguished. From the com-
ing to Taunton of James and Henry Leon-
ard to the present dny, possessed of great
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wealth they have been one of the first families
of the Commonwealth, influential and pow-
erful.
Henry Leonard, who with his brother James
established the forge at Taunton (now Eayn-
ham), was at Lynn in 1655 and 1668, and after-
ward carried on the works at Eowley village,
which place he left early in 1674; and at that
time, or soon after, went to New Jersey,
establishing the manufacture of iron in that
State. The brothers, James and Henry Leon-
ard, are stated by Eev. Doctor Fobes, LL. D.,
who more than a century ago furnished for the
Massachusetts Historical Collections an account
of the Leonard family, to have been from
Pontypool, County of Monmouth, Wales, which
place was celebrated for its working of iron
at an early date. These brothers were sons
of Tliomas Leonard of Pontypool, who him-
self did not come to this country with his
sons. The Leonards are believed to have had
some claim to the ownership of iron works
at Bilston, County of Stafford, England. At
the time they came to New England there was
probably but one furnace in the place. At Lynn
and Braintree forges were established at an
earlier date than here at Eaynham, and James
and Henry Leonard were connected with them,
but finally settled at the point last named,
where they built the first iron works in the
Old Colony. At that time the proprietors of
the iron works at Lynn and Braintree had a
monopoly by grant of this business for the
Massachusetts Colony. Their neighbors were
also desirous to establish works of the kind.
Henry Leonard's sons Samuel, Nathaniel and
Thomas contracted to carry on the works at
Eowley village after their father had left, but
undoubtedly soon followed him to New Jersey,
where numerous and highly respected descend-
ants have lived to within recent years, and
where generation after generation of this branch
of the family it is believed to at least within
recent years have been more or less interested
in their favorite pursuit — the manufacture of
iron. The Leonards were probably in most
if not all of the iron works established in this
country within the first century after its set-
tlement, and it is a remarkable fact that the
business of iron manufacturing has continued
successively, and generally very successfully, in
the hands of the Leonards, or their descendants,
down to within comparatively recent years.
Their old forge at Eaynham, though it had been
several times remodeled, had been in constant
use for upward of two hundred years ; and
some fifty years ago was in the hands of Theo-
dore Dean, Esq., who was descended from the
Leonards through his father, Eliab B. Dean,
Esq., and his grandfather, Hon. Josiah Dean, a
member of Congress, 1807-1809, who was a son
of Josiah Dean and he of Thomas and Mary
(Kingsley) Dean, whose mother was Abigail
Leonard.
The very extensive iron works at Squabetty,
on Taunton river, which at one time belonged
to H. Leonard & Co., and were later incorpo-
rated as the Old Colony Iron Company, were
fifty years ago carried on by Messrs. William
A., Samuel L. and George A. Crocker, Esqs.,
who were descendants of James Leonard
through their father, William Crocker, Esq.,
by the marriage of their grandfather, Josiah
Crocker, son of Eev. Josiah Crocker, to Abi-
gail, daughter of Zephaniah Leonard, Esq., who
was a son of Stephen.
It has been said that the Leonards are of
the family of Lennard, Lord Dacre; one of
the most distinguished families of the nobility
in the United Kingdom, and descended in two
lines from Edward III., through two of his
sons, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and
Thomas Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester; and
this statement, says William Eeed Deane, who
prepared the memoir of the Leonard family
(in 1851) from which much of this is taken,
has some plausibility, he setting forth facts
upon which he bases his conclusions.
James Leonard, son of Thomas of Pontypool,
Wales, was the progenitor of the Leonards of
Taunton, Eaynham and Norton, towns in Bris-
tol county, this Commonwealth. He and his
sons often traded with the Indians, and were
on such terms of friendship with them that
when the war broke out King Philip gave
strict orders to his men never to hurt the
Leonards. Philip resided in winter at Mount
Hope; but his summer residence was at Eayn-
ham, about one mile from the forge.
The old Leonard house, which stood but a
few rods from the forge, was pulled down some
fifty and more years ago. A part of this
house was built probably as early as 1670,
although the vane upon it had stenciled or cut
into it the year 1700. It had been occupied
by the family down to the seventh generation.
At the time the old house was demolished it
was probably the oldest mansion in New Eng-
land, if not in the country. It was apparently
modeled after an English fashion of the
eighteenth century, with some modifications
proper for defense against the Indians. This
house in its first rude form was with another
kept constantly garrisoned during Philip's war.
"In the cellar under this house was deposited
for a considerable time the head of King Philip,
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589
for it seems that even King Philip himself
shared the fate of kings; he was decapitated
and his head carried about and shown as a
curiosity by one Alderman, the Indian who
shot him." From this estate, it is stated in
the biography of Mrs. Peddy (Leonard) Bow-
en, was taken the timber that went into the
keel of the "Constitution."
(I) James Leonard, the immigrant settler at
Taunton, was dead in 1691; his wife Margaret,
who survived him, was mother-in-law to all
his children. She died about 1701. His chil-
dren were : Thomas, born Aug. 3, 1641 ; James,
born about 1643; Abigail; Rebecca; Joseph,
born about 1655; Benjamin; Hannah; and
Uriah.
(II) Benjamin Leonard, son of James, mar-
ried Jan. 15, 1678-79, Sarah Thresher, and
their children were: Sarah, born May 21, 1680;
Benjamin, born Jan. 25, 1682; Hannah, born
Nov. 8, 1685; Jerusha, born June 25, 1689;
Hannah (2), born Dec. 8, 1691; Joseph, born
Jan. 22, 1692-93; and Henry, born Nov. 8,
1695.
(III) Joseph Leonard, son of Benjamin,
born Jan. 22, 1692-93, had children: George,
who lived in Middleboro, Mass.; Chloe;
Ephraim, and Philip. Of these, Chloe married
Eliphalet Elmes, of Middleboro, a soldier of
the Revolution who died in 1830, aged seventy-
seven years; she died in 1843, aged eighty-
three. Ephraim married Mary Pratt, and lived
in Middleboro ; his children were : James (of
Middleboro), Jane (wife of L. 0. Perkins, of
Boston), Sarah (wife of Orlando Thompson,
of New Bedford) and Betsey (wife of J. Drake,
of Boston).
(IV) Capt. Philip Leonard, son of Joseph,
married Jan. 6, 1737, Mary Richmond,
daughter of Josiah Richmond. Captain Leon-
ard had his forge at what is now called the
tack factory on the railroad between Middle-
boro and Taunton.
(V) George Leonard, son of Capt. Philip,
born in Middleboro, always lived in his native
town. He had his bloomery on the Nemasket
river at Pour Corners. He married Mary Al-
len, born Sept. 21, 1760, and their children
were : George ; Samuel ; Nehemiah ; Lois, mar-
ried to Rev. Lewis Leonard, of Cazenovia, N.
Y. ; and Emeline, married to Thomas Daggett,
Esq., of Middleboro. Nehemiah had been in
business at Middleboro, and then he bought the
forge at Randy's Mills in Rochester, and he
and his brother George carried it on in partner-
ship some four or five years, when George
bought his interest and continued the 'business
alone the rest of his life. Nehemiah located
in New Bedford in 1822, beginning business
on Orange street. He prospered and in five or
six years was a director in the Merchants' Bank,
and agent for several whale ships. He drifted
into the manufacture of oil, and in 1836 built
candle works on Rotch's South (familiarly
known as Leonard's) Wharf, carrying on this
business for thirty years. He died Oct. 25,
1869.
(VI) Samuel Leonard, son of George, was
born in Middleboro. In 1814 he married Han-
nah Taber, born in New Bedford, daughter
of Benjamin Taber, and their children were:
Henry Taber; Bathsheba, who married Na-
thaniel Gilbert, of Bridgewater; Samuel, Jr.,
who married Sarah Tobey, daughter of George
and Keziah (Sherman) Tobey; Capt. John W.,
who married Sylvia Tucker; George, who mar-
ried Cynthia Washburn; Thomas W., who
married Sarah Schenck; and Mary A., who
married Peleg Akin, a bank president of South
Yarmouth. Shortly after his marriage Sam-
uel Leonard and his father-in-law contracted
to build a mill building at the Head-of-the-
River. Through thii came acquaintance with
William Rotch, Jr.- For a short time Mr.
Leonard was at Yai louth erecting salt works,
and starting the business, and after his return
to New Bedford he built extensive salt works
at the Cove for Messrs. Rotch, Arnold and
Russell, these works eventually covering many
acres, and he operated the works as long as
they were profitable. He erected the house
now occupied by the Orphans' Home, at the
corner of Brock avenue and Cove street.
Through purchasing the lumber for his ex-
tensive building operations he became inter-
ested in the lumber business, and Mr. Rotch
built what is known as Leonard's wharf for the
business which so rapidly grew. Mr. Leonard
added a planing-mill and other works. He then
began the manufacture of sperm candles, and
after a fire had destroyed all his and his
brother's works, built the candle works of Wil-
liam Russell (now the carriage factory of the
George L. Brovraell estate). He was the largest
oil refiner in the world, and was the first to
make the colored wax candles used all over
the world. He was a very important factor
in the commercial life of New Bedford. At
the time of the building of the New Bedford
and Taunton railroad, it was said that his
freighting was one and one-half times greater
than all other freights from New Bedford com-
bined. He died Oct. 25, 1868, and his widow
Oct. 14, 1875.
(VII) Hemut Taber Leonard (son of
Samnel), for seventeen years, fifteen days the
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SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
faithful and efficient clerk of the city of New
Bedford, was born Aug. 17, 1818, in South Yar-
mouth. In the public schools of his dative town
and in the Friends' Boarding School at Provi-
dence his education was acquired. He became
a clerk in Seth Akin's store, first, but subse-
quently was associated with his father. Later
he went to New York, and became a partner
in the firm of Wetherell, Sprague & Co., oil
and iron merchants who were connected with
Samuel. Leonard and Lazell, Perkins & Co., of
New Bedford. Mr. Leonard finally withdrew
from this concern, and returning to New Bed-
ford engaged in the lumber business with
Augustus A. Greene, under the firm name of
Leonard & Greene. He made a number of
business changes, being several times in the
oil business with his father and brother Samuel,
either as partner or bookkeeper, engaging in
the manufacture of cotton with his father at
Suncook, N. H. He joined the fortune hunt-
ers in the rush to California in 1849, and on his
return east conducted a lumber yard in Charles-
town, Mass., afterward reengaging in the oil
business at New Bedforc^, as the head of the
firm of Leonard, Sturtey'nt & Co. Upon the
dissolution of this partn\.'-ship he returned to
the oflice of his father. On the death of Sau-
ford S. Horton, in 1862, he was elected clerk
for the city of New Bedford, which office he
filled until his death, July 18, 1879. His in-
telligence, unblemished character, faithfulness
to duty, geniality and quiet manliness secured
for him universal esteem and continued re-
election as city clerk during violent political
changes, he never having any opposition. He
also served one year as a member of the school
committee.
Mr. Leonard was a member of the Society of
Friends, a man of unswerving religious con-
viction and strict conscientiousness, and was
without an enemy. In 1841 he married De-
borah Allen Butler, daughter of Daniel But-
ler, of New Bedford. She died Dec. 16, 1901.
Their children were: Robert Taber, Daniel
Butler, Gertrude Hoyer, Henry Allen, Mary
L., Roland Allen, Milton H. and Mary Butler-
(VIII) Daniel Butler Leonard, son of
Henry T., born in New Bedford April 6, 1844,
was educated in the public schools of his na-
tive town and in the private school conducted
by Prof. John Boadle, an Englishman. Under
the latter gentleman he also received private
instruction in contemplation of a college course,
but instead of entering college went in 1860
to New York City as bookkeeper for his uncle,
Thomas W. Leonard. After a short time he
was made a partner in the business, which asso-
ciation continued for about four years. He
then returned to New Bedford and became an
employee in the city treasurer's office for a
year. He then received a commission as assist-
ant assessor of internal revenue under Charles
G. Davis, assessor-at-large for the district, for
a term of three years. Upon the consolida-
tion of the district he retired from the posi-
tion. He was next commissioned by the county
commissioners to copy the old town proprietary
records, which he finished, and they are now on
file in the office of the register of deeds for
the New Bedford district. For the next nine
or ten years he was employed by the A. & W.
Sprague Manufacturing Company, of Provi-
dence, R. I., continuing with the trustee, Zach-
ariah Chaffee, after the Sprague failure. He be-
gan with the Spragues as clerk and finally be-
came buying agent for the company. Upon the
expiration of this service he entered the employ
of the Silver Spring Bleaching and Dyeing
Company of Providence, ex-Gov. Henry Lippett
being treasurer, and remained there until the
year of his father's death, when he returned to
New Bedford. He was first appointed city
clerk under the administration of Mayor Wil-
liam T. Soule May 8, 1879, and elected the
following October. He was reelected annually
from April, 1880, to April, 1902, when he was
elected for a term of three years, and was re-
elected in 1905 and 1908, making a term of
thirty-one years, or forty-eight years that this
office was filled by father and son. Mr. Leon-
ard was the best known of any of the city
officials, because of his long contimious service,
and he was one of the best informed men in
the State on municipal laws, his opinion be-
ing frequently sought in complicated matters
of a legal nature. Hi§ death occurred March
13, 1911, in his sixty-seventh year. Mr. Leon-
ard never took an active part in public rnat-
ters. He was a Republican in political be-
lief.
Fraternally Mr. Leonard belonged to R. A.
Pierce Post, No. 190, G. A. R., of New Bed-
ford, having enlisted during the Civil war in
Company E, 3d Massachusetts Regiment; he
was at once transferred to the commissary de-
partment of the State. He was a member of
the Knights of Pythias; of Acushnet Lodge,
I. 0. 0. F., of New Bedford, in which he was
the fourth oldest member ; of Star in the East
Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; of Adoniram Chapter,
R. A. M. ; of New Bedford Council, R. & S. M. ;
and of Sutton Commandery, No. 16, K. T.
Mr. Leonard married July 28, 1869, Char-
lotte E; Howard. They had no children.
(VIII) Dr. Milton Hall Leonard, son of
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591
Henry T., born in New Bedford April 17, 1857,
was educated in the public schools of that town
and was prepared for college under Betsy B.
Winslow. He entered the medical department
of the University of the City of New York
in 1876, and graduated therefrom in 1879. He
began the practice of his profession in New Bed-
ford in March, 1879, and has been thus en-
gaged for more than thirty years. His practice
extends to the neighboring cities of Providence,
R. I., Fall River, etc. He has made a specialty
of obstetrics. For three or four years he was
physician to the town of Dartmouth, and for
sixteen years was county physician. Profes-
sionally he is a member of the American Medi-
cal Association; the Massachusetts Medical So-
ciety; Boston Medical Library Association;
New Bedford Medical Society, and the Bristol
South District Medical Society (a branch of
the Massachusetts Medical Society), of which
he has been president. He belongs to the
I. 0. 0. F. In his political faith he is a Re-
publican.
On Sept. 13, 1882, Dr. Leonard was mar-
ried to Sarah Parthenia GafEord, daughter of
Joseph and Sarah Jane (Longley) Gafford, of
Virginia. On her father's side she is related
to the Lees of Virginia. She is a great-grtod-
daughter of Parthenia Webster, sister to Pele-
tiah Webster, one of Washington's financial
advisers and a Congressman from Pennsylvania.
Dr. and Mrs. Leonard have no children.
WILLIAM PERRY HOOD, for more than
half a century one of the most prominent and
representative men of Somerset, was born in
Providence, R. I., June 16, 1825, son of David
B. and Mary Ann (Brown.) Hood, the latter
a daughter of John and Sally Brown.
Noble Hood, great-grandfather of William
Perry, was born Aug. 16, 1748. He married
Hannah Perry. He served as private in the
Revolutionary army in Colonel Carpenter's
regiment. He was the father of five cliildren,
viz. : Lydia, born April 7, 1773, died March 26,
1846; John, bom March 23, 1775. died Oct. 12,
1859; William, born Sept. 17, 1776, died Dec.
31, 1863; Martha, born in 1780, died in 1846;
Noble, Jr., was born April 1,. 1781.
John Hood, son of Noble, was born March 23,
1775, and died Oct. 12, 1859. He married
Mary Ann Bowers, who died March 28, 1847.
They had twelve children: John, bom in
1796, who died in 1836; William; George B.,
born Nov. 10, 1799, who died Jan. 22, 1871;
David B., born Jan. 12, 1802, who died June 6,
1871; Mary, bom Oct. 22, 1803, who died
Feb. 5, 1843; Nancy, born in 1805, who died
in 1880; Barton Quincy, born Oct. 23, 1807;
Rachel, born Jan. 17, 1812, who died March 7,
1887; Rebecca F., born Feb. 10, 1813, who
died Feb. 15, 1897 (she married William G.
Gardiner) ; James Madison, born in 1815, who
died May 20, 1871; Sophia, born April 2, 1817,
who died MaT^15, 1891 ; and Elouisa M., born
Jan. 11, 182™who died March 16, 1909.
David B. Hood, son of John Hood, was born
Jan. 12, 1802. He married Mary Ann Brown,
daughter of John and Sally Brown. He was
a merchant by trade. He had four children,
viz. : William' P. ; David B., who died in 1832,
when about three years of age ; Alfred H., now
living in California; and David B. (2), now
living in Somerset.
His father being a merchant and business
taking him on frequent trips to the Southern
States, young William P. Hood would be left
in charge of the business with responsibilities
unusual for one so young in years. A man's
mature Judgment and thoughtfulness seem to
have possessed the boy of fourteen to such an
extent that the business went right along under
his management. The one absorbing principle
of liis life, self-reliance, was early implanted.
Thus actuated he left home at the early age of
fifteen to try the world for himself. He worked
first at any kind of employment he could get
for a number of years, and at last he took up
fire, marine and life insurance. In this he was
eminently successful, so much so that he con-
tinued it as a side line to every other under-
taking that he entered into.
Coming to Somerset in early boyhood Mr.
Hood showed special business capacity. He
became a clerk, then the cpnfidential clerk and
business manager for the late James M. Hood,
who was a successful shipbuilder from 1850 to
1854. To follow him through the many and
diversified undertakings he carried through
successfully, without a single failure, would
take a long time. For twenty-five years he
was a commercial traveler for the Seavey Com-
pany, of Boston, selling all over New England,
never stopping for hard times, but meeting
circumstances of that nature with renewed
energy and determination. In 1854 with others
he organized and incorporated the Boston Stove
Foundry Company, at Somerset, and for some
years was its treasurer.
But it must not be taken for granted that
the life of a commercial traveler or successful
stove manufacturer filled up the scope of Mr.
Hood's operations. On the contrary he early
invested in shipping, carried shares in a number
of vessels, and was interested in eighteen vessels
which have gone down at various times. He
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was interested in the merchant marine, and
owned a large interest in the five-masted
schooner "Gov. Ames." For many years he
was one of the principal owners of the Somer-
set shipyards, making his first venture in real
estate in 1844 with a beginning of only $40
becoming the largest individual property owner
in the village of Somerset. He owned one of
the best farms in the county, and in it took
special pride.
About the year 1892 Mr. Hood purchased
the property of the Cooperative Foundry Com-
pany, and with John D. Flint, Frank S. Stevens
and others formed the Somerset Stove Foundry
'Company, of which he was chosen the treas-
urer and general manager, in which capacity
he acted at the time of his death.
In politics Mr. Hood was a stanch Repub-
lican, and for many years he was chairman of
the Republican town committee. For many
years he was chairman of the board of select-
men and assessors of the town, having as as-
sociates most of the time William Lawton Slade
and the venerable Capt. Alfred Pratt. In 1861
he represented his district in the General Court.
Though not a church member, Mr. Hood was
alwavs closely identified with the First Baptist
Church, and contributed liberally to its main-
tenance. He was a social man, and one of the
most genial to meet in business, in his home,
or in social circles. Though often engaged
in the heated contests of town matters he never
bore any ill will toward anyone, and the man
who had opposed him one day in a sharp con-
test for town honors, or in the advocacy of
tovra matters, found in him the following day
a genial friend and well wisher. This trait of
character means more in a small country town,
where matters are drawn on sharp lines and
political grudges not always forgotten, than it
does in a city. In his home he was pleasant,
social and hospitable. His life was upright and
moral in every respect, temperate, just and
honest. Cordial in all his dealings, he was the
adviser and well wisher of all who sought his
advice on any matters. When the dark cloud
of adversity years ago began hovering over the
town of Somerset, he of all others tried to stay
its progress, and freely and willingly invested
his money in local enterprises and real estate,
even though his better judgment assured him
it might not be wise from a financial stand-
point. Fraternally he was a Mason, being a
charter member of Tioneer Lodge of Somer-
set, and he also belonged to a Royal Arch Chap-
ter of Fall River.
In 1843 Mr. Hood married Sarah A. Davis,
daughter of Deacon Nathan and Clarissa
(Bowen) Davis. They had ten children, as fol-
lows:
(1) Mary E., born July 20, 1844, married
William H. Tallman, and died June 17, 1907,
the mother of five children, Marianna (mar-
ried William A. Padelford), Sadie E. (mar-
ried F. N. Reed, of North Dighton), Helen R.,
Alfred W. and Annie A.
(2) William P., Jr., born Jan. 15, 1846,
married Julia A. Gardner, and had two chil-
dren, Lillie A. (married Frank B. Hood) and
Bernice (married A. H. Plant, of Syracuse,
N. Y.). He died Jan. 20, 1906.
(3) Clarence T., born May 25, 1848, died
in infancy.
(4) Sarah F., born July 26, 1849, died
Feb. 17, 1851.
(5) Sarah F. (2), born May 3, 1851, mar-
ried William 0. Sweet, of Attleboro, Mass.,
Oct. 3, 1869. They had four children, as fol-
lows: Florence Eliza, born Aug. 3, 1870, died
Feb. 20, 1879; Frank Royden, born Oct. 3,
1880, is to-day one of the most successful manu-
facturers in Attleboro (he married Harriet
Pitman, of Mansfield) ; William Raymond, born
Feb. 5, 1886, is a machinist engaged in manu-
facturing tools for making jewelry; Howard
Leslie, born Jan. 27, 1892, works in Attleboro
in the factory of his brother Frank.
(6) Annie A., born March 8, 1853, died
Aug. 11, 1898. She was married to Henry B.
Leonard, treasurer of the Mount Hope Iron
Company, March 9, 1875, and died Feb. 26,
1904. They had five children, as follows:
Ralph Emerson, born Dec. 9, 1875, died Aug.
8, 1894; Ethel Bernice, born Dec. 10, 1877,
married June 15, 1898, Raymond S. Case;
Gertrude Field was born July 12, 1880; May
Adelaide, born May 1, 1883, married George
Chapman, of Boston ; Russell Henry, born Oct.
4, 1888, now in the employ of the United States
Government with reference to tariff matters,
married Sept. 19, 1911, Helen Case, of Spring-
field, Massachusetts.
(7) Alfred H. was born in Somerset, Mass.,
April 19, 1855. During the winters of 1870-71
and 1873 he attended commercial college in Fall
River, and from the fall of 1874 to December,
1875, the Peirce Academy in Middleboro. In
1877 he graduated from Worcester Academy,
and in 1881 from Brown University, with the
degree of A. B. He was a classmate of Justice
Charles E. Hughes, of the United States
Supreme court, and was a member of the Delta
Upsilon fraternity. In early manhood he be-
came associarted with his father in the insur-
ance business as William P. Hood & Son, and
while in academy and college had full charge
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of that business and of the farm. Selecting native town. Like her father and her mother,
the law as his profession he attended Boston her face was implacably set against every form
University Law School graduating in 1883, of intemperance, and she did whatever she
and since that time has practiced in Fall Eiver. could toward raising the social standards of
On Jan. 1, 1887, he became a member of the the town. Perhaps no house in the town was
law firm of Lincoln & Hood. more open to hospitaility and good cheer than
Mr. Hood is president of the Somerset Stove hers, and at the farm which was her home
Foundry Company, and director and attorney for more than fifty years probably more husking
for the Fall River Cooperative Bank. bees and other forms of sociability on a large
In politics Mr. Hood is a Republican. His scale took place than elsewhere in the county,
fraternal connection is with Pioneer Lodge of No one seeking aid in a good cause, or for
Somerset and Royal Arch Masons of Fall charity's sake, was ever turned away from her
River. He is interested in the moral welfare home empty-handed. Mrs. Hood provided in
of the town, and has been an active worker in her will that a public library to be known as
the Y. M. C. A. of Fall River. Spring Hill the Hood Library, in memory of her husband,
Farm in Somerset, where Mr. Hood now re- William P. Hood, should be erected in Somer-
sides, which was the homestead of his parents, set, and this library was dedicated Oct. 1, 1910.
is one of the finest farms in Bristol county.
On April 14, 1885, at Somerset, Mass., Mr. WASHBURN (Taunton family). For, per-
Hood married Carrie W. Ridlon, daughter of haps, nearly a century there have lived several
Almond S. and Carrie C. (Gardner) Ridlon. generations of the Washburn family at Taun-
They have had four children, viz. : Ruth, born ton, descendants of a progenitor many of whose
July 4, 1888, who died July 7, 1888; Preston posterity have filled high and honorable po-
Hart, born Aug. 9, 1889, who is a student at sitions in society, in civil and military affairs,
Brown University; Mildred Davis, born Oct. in New England and elsewhere; not excepting
29, 1891; and Harold Gardiner, born June 5, the Taunton branch, a member of that family
1897. having since the outbreak of the Civil war been
(8) Lydia F., bom May 24, 1856, was mar- one of the leading citizens of his community,
ried Nov. 24, 1881, to Edward J. Holland, and rising to commendable rank in the service of
had one child, Clifford Milburn, born March his country and to high position in civil affairs,
13, 1883. He is a graduate of Harvard Col- in which a continued public service in one de-
lege and now in the employ of the Pennsylvania partment of approximately thirty years estab-
Railroad Company as civil engineer in bridge lished for him a record and reputation which
and tunnel work, in New York City. made his election as president of one of the
(9) Nellie R., born Aug. 21, 1860, died Taunton banking institutions desirable. Refer-
March 18, 1879. ence is made to Capt. George Albert Washburn,
(10) Thomas H., born Oct. 18, 1866, died who for a decade was the chief executive officer
March 11, 1883. of the Taunton National Bank; and two of
Mr. William P. Hood died in Somerset Nov. whose sons are now well established in pro-
4, 1899. In his will he gave $500 to the town fessional life in their native city — Dr. Elliott
of Somerset, and this with other funds fur- Washburn and Charles Godfrey Washburn,
nished by his widow erected the public drink- members respectively of the medical and legal
ing fountain in Somerset. He also gave $1,000 professions: and to Eli King Washburn, a
to the First Baptist Church. sturdy Abolitionist and temperance worker, and
Mrs. Sarah A. (Davis) Hood, wife of Wil- his son, Thomas J. Washburn, who as a "forty-
liam P. Hood, was born in Somerset, Mass., niner" sought his fortune for some years in Cal-
Dec. 7, 1826, and died at her home there Nov. ifornia.
3, 1905. She was a daughter of Deacon Nathan This Taunton Washburn family descends
Davis and a descendant of one of the oldest and from (1) John Washburn, who according to
best known families of the town. Like her tradition was the secretary of the Massachusetts
husband she was interested in everything that Company, or, as it is put by another, the first
affected the community. She was a member secretary of the council of Plymouth in Eng-
of the First Baptist Church, of which her fa- land, in which position he was succeeded by
ther, Nathan Davis, was for many years a William Burgess in 1628. Mr._ Washburn is
deacon and prominent supporter. From early of record at Duxbury in 1632, in which year
childhood up to within a few years of her he was taxed. He bought property there in
death, Mrs. Hood had been actively interested 1634-35. He was made a freeman June 2,
in all the various phases of social' life in her 1646. He is said to have been in the military
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company commanded by Capt. Myles Standish.
In about 1665 he removed to Bridgewater, of
which town he and his son John were orig-
inal proprietors, and they and Philip became
residents and settlers in South Bridgewater.
His wife Margery, aged forty-nine years, with
sons John, aged fourteen years, Philip, aged
eleven years, came to New England in 1635 in
the "Elizabeth and Ann," being certified from
Eversham, Worcestershire, England. The chil-
dren of John and Margery Washburn were :
John (2), born in Eversham, England, about
1621 ; and Philip, bom in Eversham, about
162-1, who died unmarried.
This John Washburn (2) is the "ancestor
of most if not all of the name in the United
States." From John, through his son Samuel,
came Israel, late governor of Maine; Cadwala-
der C, who in the early seventies was gov-
ernor of Wisconsin; Elihu B., at one time
minister to France; and Charles A., a former
minister to Paraguay — all brothers and sLxth
in descent from John Washburn. And from
John through his son Joseph came Emory
Washburn, former governor of Massachusetts,
fifth in descent from John; William B. Wash-
burn, also former governor of Massachusetts,
sixth in descent from John, and the late
Peter Thacher Washburn, former governor
of Vermont, sixth in descent from John.
The latter, Hon. Peter Thacher Washburn,
says his biographer, "became one of the most
marked characters that have figured in the
politics of Vermont." Liberally educated, a
graduate of Dartmouth with the class of 1835,
he became a lawyer of ability; was from 1844
to 1855 reporter of decisions of the Supreme
court of Vermont; served as lieutenant colonel
on the 1st Vermont Volunteers in the early
part of the Civil war, and was elected governor
of Vermont in September, 1871.
Israel Washburn, of Raynham, was a mem-
ber of the convention which framed the con-
stitution of Massachusetts in 1780. [See be-
low.]
(II) John Washburn (2), son of John and
Margery, was born in Eversham, England,
about 1621. He came to Duxbury with his
mother and brother Philip (aged eleven) in
1635. He is mentioned in the Plymouth rec-
ords in December, 1638. He served as agent
for the Narragansett Indians in 1645. On Dec.
6, 1645, in Duxbury, he married Elizabeth
Mitchell, daughter of Experience Mitchell, one
of the forefathers of the Colony, who was with
the Pilgrims at Leyden, and who came to Ply-
mouth on the third ship, the "Anne," in 1623.
Experience Mitchell married Jane Cooke,
daughter of Francis Cooke, the "Mayflower"
Pilgrim. To John and Elizabeth Washburn
were born children as follows : John mar-
ried Rebeckah Lapham; Thomas married
(first) Abigail Leonard and (second) Deliver-
ance Packard; Joseph married Hannah La-
tham; Samuel, born in 1651, married Deborah
Packard; Jonathan married Mary Vaughn, of
Middleboro, Mass. ; Benjamin died in Phipps's
expedition against Canada ; Mary married Sam-
uel Kinsley in 1694; Elizabeth married (first)
James Howard and (second) Edward Sealey;
Jane married William Orcutt, Jr. ; James mar-
ried Mary Bowden in 1693 ; and Sarah married
John Ames in 1697. John Washburn (2), the
father, died at Bridgewater before 1690.
(III) Jonathan Wa.shburn, son of John (2)
and Elizabeth (Mitchell), married about 1683
Mary, daughter of George Vaughn, of Middle-
boro, and their children were : Elizabeth, born
1684, who marfied John Benson in 1710;
Josiah, born 1686 ; Benjamin, bom 1688 ; Eb-
enezer, born 1690; Martha, born 1692; Joanna,
born 1693; Nathan, born 1699; Jonathan, born
1700; and Cornelius, born 1702.
(IV) Benjamin Washburn, son of Jonathan
and Mary, born in 1688, married in 1714 Be-
thiah, daughter of Henry Kingman. He set-
tled his father Jonathan's estate in 1725, and
his brother Ebenezer's in 1728. His children
were: Isaac, Jonathan, Henry, Benjamin
(married in 1742 Susanna Battles), Ezra, and
perhaps others. Isaac Washburn went to Dart-
mouth, where he was a tanner. He enlisted in
the French war under General Winslow in
1755. Bethiah Washburn married Nehemiah
Bryant in 1741.
(V) Jonathan Washburn, son of Benjamin
and Bethiah (Kingman), married Judith,
daughter of Elnathan Wood, of Middleboro,
Mass. Their children were : Jonathan, Ben-
jamin, Isaac, Salmon, and perhaps others.
(VI) Isaac Washburn, son of Jonathan and
Judith (Wood), came from Middleboro to
Taunton in the earlier part of the century but
recently closed, and through life was one of
the highly esteemed and respected citizens of
his adopted town. He had been a soldier of the
Revolution — one of the "minute-men" of 1776.
He founded at Taunton the business — that of
furniture, hardware and house-furnishings in
general — now conducted by his grandsons, and
with which he and his sons, John Nicholas and
Salmon Washburn, in turn, for years were
identified. Isaac Washburn died in 1832. He
had been three times married, and was the
father of eighteen children. He married (first)
Mary Phillips, (second) Eunice Carey, of Mid-
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dleboro, Mass., and (third) Elizabeth, born Feb.
16, 1770, daughter of Hon. William Eichmond,
of Providence, E. I., and his wife Lois (Gray)
Eichmond, he a direct descendant of John Eich-
mond, an early settler of Taunton, from whom
his lineage was through Edward, Silvester, Wil-
liam and Barzillai Eichmond. We have the
names of seventeen of his children: Nancy;
William; Henry; Mary (all born to the first
wife); Eunice Carey; Mary (3); Isaac; Eli-
phalet (all born to the second wife) ; George,
bom April 6, 1799; Elizabeth, born Dec. 17,
1800; Louisa, born Oct. 5, 1802; Albert Gray,
born April 14, 1804; Fanny, born Dec. 16,
1805; Charles Eichmond, born Nov. 21, 1807;
John Nicholas, born Oct. 3, 1809 ; Salmon,
born April 7, 1812; and Elizabeth N., bom
Dec. 14, 1814.
(VII) George Washburn, son of Isaac and
Elizabeth (Eichmond), born April 6, 1799,
married June 5, 1835, Diana Northam Mason,
of Swansea, Mass., a direct descendant of Samp-
son Mason, who was a soldier in Cromwell's
army and who on the ascent of Charles II. to
the throne of England came to America, and as
early as 1649 is of record in New England. He
settled in Eehoboth, Mass., not far from 1657,
and became the progenitor of a numerous pos-
terity. He married Mary Butterworth, prob-
ably daughter of John Butterworth, of Wey-
mouth, and sister of John Butterworth, of
Swansea, Mass. For upward of one hundred
years the descendants of Mr. Mason were known
as Mason elders, during, which period they
served continually in the pastorate of the first
Baptist Church in Massachusetts. The only
child of George and Diana Northam (Mason)
Washburn was George Albert, born Feb. 5,
1836.
(VIII) George Albert Washburn, son of
George and Diana Northam (Mason), was born
Feb. 5, 1836, in Swansea, Mass. He came
with his parents to Taunton, where he resided
for the remainder of his life, and where he ac-
quired a good public and private school educa-
tion. At the age of sixteen years be became a
clerk in the hardware, iron and steel store of
Mr. Albert G. Washburn, afterward entering
the employ of Wood & Washburn, who were en-
gaged in the same business. In 1857 he was ad-
mitted as a partner in the firm, which was
known as Hunt, Harris & Co. He gained a
valuable experience in these capacities, and laid
the foundation for a successful and substantial
career. His mercantile life, however, ended
on the breaking out of the Civil war, which at
once aroused his patriotism and caused him
promptly to offer his services to the Union.
On April 16, 1861, young Washbum left
his business and responded to the first call for
troops, enlisting in Company C, 4th Mass. V.
I., which arrived at Fortress Monroe April
20th. This was the first company to leave
Taunton, and also the first company of the first
regiment to leave Massachusetts for the front.
By a singular coincidence his grandfather, Isaac
Washbum, a "minute-man," was in the first
company to leave Taunton in the Eevolutionary
war, departing April 20, 1775, just eighty-six
years before. Mr. Washburn went out as a ser-
geant, served three months, or until the expira-
tion of his term of enlistment, and immediately
reentered the service as a first lieutenant in the
22d Mass. V. I., for three years. Col. Henry
Wilson commanding, attached to the 1st Di-
vision, 1st Brigade, 5th Army Corps, Army oi
the Potomac. He was wounded at the battle
of Gaines' Mill, Va., June 27, 1862, and taken
prisoner, and for some time suffered the terrible
confinement of Libby prison. He was promoted
to captain to date from July 11, 1862, and was
mustered out of service to date from Jan. 5,
1863.
Captain Washburn received official notice of
honorable discharge March 8, 1863, and the next
day was elected treasurer and collector of taxes
of Taunton, which office he filled with great
credit and satisfaction for twenty-nine consecu-
tive years, resigning Dec. 24, 1891, at which
time he was elected president of the Taunton
National Bank. He was also clerk of the over-
seers of the poor from 1865 to 1882, inclusive,
a member of that body from 1883 to March,
1891, clerk of the board of assessors from 1869
to 1875, and member of the city council in
1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899
and 1900. He was secretary and treasurer of
the board of Sinking Fund Commissioners of
Taunton from 1878 to 1892, and secretary from
1892 to 1898, and in January, 1898, was elected
its chairman. He was also a trustee of the Mor-
ton hospital and of the Taunton Savings Bank,
a member of the investment committee of the
last named institution, and a director of the
Taimton Street Eailway Company. Mr. Wash-
burn was an able business man, a public-spirited,
progressive citizen, and a worthy representa-
tive of one of Taunton's oldest and most re-
spected families. His long and valuable serv-
ice as treasurer and tax collector established
his reputation for industry, honesty and faith-
fulness, and won for htm a large circle of
friends. In every capacity he efficiently and
satisfactorily discharged his duties, and en-
joyed the confidence of the entire community.
Mr. Washburn married (first) Elizabeth
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Gordon Pratt, daughter of Nathan and Lydia
Pratt, and (second) Ellen Button Keed,
daughter of Edgar Hodges and Ellen Augusta
Reed, all of Taunton, Mass. His four children
— one born to the first marriage and three to
the second — are: Harriet Mason, wife of
Charles A. Austin, of Brockton; Edgar Reed;
Elliott; and Charles Godfrey.
(IX) Elliott Washburn, M. D., son of
George Albert and Ellen D. (Reed), was born
Feb. 9, 1870, in Taunton, Mass.,, and acquired
his early education in the public schools of
that city, graduating in 1887. Entering Har-
vard Medical School the same year, he was
graduated therefrom in 1892, the last two years
of that period being given to study and practice
in the Boston City hospital. Since then he
has been engaged in the general practice of
medicine at Taunton. In July, 1896, Dr.
Washburn was elected chairman of the Taun-
ton board of health, and was continued in that
position until 1907, when he resigned. Dr.
Washburn, in July, 1907, was appointed State
inspector of health for the Fourth district of
Massachusetts for a term of five years. He has
been president of the Bristol North District
Medical Society, a branch of the Massachusetts
State Medical Society. He has also been a
member of the staff of Morton hospital since
1892. He has been a success in his profes-
sional work, and ranks among the best of the
younger physicians in Taunton. He is a mem-
ber of Ionic Lodge, A. F. & A. M. In religious
belief he is a Unitarian.
On Nov. 18, 1896, Dr. Washburn married
Mary Louise Hayden, of Holbrook, Mass. They
have no children.
(IX) Chaeles Godfrey Washburn, son of
George Albert and Ellen D. (Reed) Washburn,
was born Sept. 15, 1871, in Taunton, Mass. He
received his early education in the public
schools of his native city. Having decided to
follow the legal profession for a life work he
was prepared for it under the direction of Hon.
E. H. Bennett and Frederick S. Hall, and at the
Boston University Law School, being gradu-
ated therefrom in 1896. After his admission
to the bar he entered upon the practice of law
in his native city. He married Helen Clark
Shalling, daughter of Frederick Girard and
Lilla A. (Clark) Shalling, of Taunton. They
have one daughter, Carolyn, born Dec. 28,
1906.
(Ill) Samuel Washburn, son of John (3)
and Elizabeth (Mitchell), was called Sergeant
Washburn. He was born at Duxbury, Mass., in
1651. He married Deborah Packard. Her
father, Samuel Packard, came from Windham,
near Hingham, England, on the ship "Delight"
of Ipswich, and settled at Hingham, Mass., in
1638, and later he lived at Bridgewater. The
children of Samuel and Deborah Washburn
were: Samuel, born 1678, married Abigail;
Noah, born 1682, married in 1710 Elizabeth
Shaw; Israel, bom 1684, married in 1708
Waitstill Sumner; Nehemiah, born 1686, mar-
ried in 1713 Jane Howard; Benjamin married
Joanna (or Susanna) Orcutt; and Hannah
married in 1711 John Keith. Samuel Wash-
burn died at Bridgewater, Mass., in 1720. He
was the ancestor of the Maine family of Wash-
burns.
(IV) Israel Washburn, son of Sergt. Samuel
and Deborah (Packard), was born at Bridge-
water, M^ss., in 1684. In 1708 he married
Waitstill Sumner, and their children, all born
in Bridgewater, were: Sarah, born 1709, who
married in 1732 Ephraim Keith; Deborah, born
1712, who married (first) John Ripley and
(second) Nathaniel Bottom (or Bolton) ; Seth,
bom in 1714; and Israel, bom Aug. 11, 1718.
Israel Washburn died at Bridgewater in 1719.
He was the last of this line of Washburns who
lived at that place. His son Israel settled in
Raynham, and his descendants continue to live
there. The widow of Israel Washburn married
Ebenezer Pratt in 1720.
(V) Israel Washburn, son of Israel and
Waitstill (Sumner), was born at Bridgewater
Aug. 11, 1718. In 1740 he married Leah
Fobes, who was born at Bridgewater March
27, 1720, daughter of Joshua and Abigail
(Dunbar) Fobes. Israel Washburn settled in
Raynham, Mass., shortly after his marriage, and
all his children were born there. He died at
Raynham Jan. 21, 1796. His wife Leah died
there Dec. 9, 1789, and he married (second)
Hannah Keith, of Bridgewater, who died in
the same year as himself. Of his children the
first three died young; Leah married in 1770
Jason Fobes; Israel, born 1755, married in 1783
Abiah King, of Raynham ; Nehemiah married
Polly Preshno, had ten children and lived and
died in Raynham; Seth was a physician at
Raynham ; Oliver married Sally Lascom, had
five children and lived and died in Raynham;
Olive married Reuben Andrews, of Raynham ;
and Prudence married a Mr. Keith. Israel
Washburn was elected March 4, 1776, a member
of the committee of correspondence, inspection
and safety for the town of Raynham. He was
also captain of the military company — the
trained band — of Raynham, Nov. 9, 1774, the
company being one of the companies of the
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597
Sd Regiment of Bristol county. He also served
a short time in the Revolutionary army.
(VI) Israel Washburn, son of Israel and
Leah (Fobes), was born in Raynham, Mass.,
Jan. 30, 1755. He died at Raynham Jan. 8,
1841, aged a few days less than eighty-six years.
He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution,
and the following is an official abstract of a
part of his service : "Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts, Office of the Secretary: Revolution-
ary War Service of Israel Washburn, Jr. :
Israel Washburn, Jr., appears with rank of
private on Lexington Alarm roll of James Wil-
liams, Jr.'s Company, which marched on the
alarm of April 19, 1775, from Taunton to
Roxbury." Israel Washburn was a tall, large-
framed man, and when in the prime of life
was very straight and strong, but much bowed
in old age. He served in the General Court
of Massachusetts several years, and was a mem-
ber of the convention that adopted the first
constitution of the Commonwealth. He talked
but little and it is said that in all his legis-
lative experience he made but one speech. On
one occasion, a member having made a speech
that greatly pleased him, he arose and said :
"I like what that man said, because — I do like
it." Israel Washburn married in 1783 Abiah
King, daughter of Benjamin and Deliverance
(Eddy) King. She was born in Raynham
June 29, 1762, and died May 25, 1842. Their
children, all born in Raynham, were: Israel,
bom Nov. 18, 1784; Molly, Nov. 14, 1786;
Sidney, Nov. 14, 1788; Benjamin, Feb. 10,
1791; Reuel, May 21, 1793; Elihu, July 22,
1795; Philander, June 28, 1799; Eli King,
July 22, 1802; Lydia King, Feb. 24, 1805; and
Cornelia, Jan. 7, 1807.
(VII) Eli King Washburn, son of Israel and
Abiah (King), was born at Raynham July 32,
1802. He spent his life on the old Washburn
homestead at Raynham. He represented bis
town in the Legislature of Massachusetts, and
weHS an ardent temperance man and Abolition-
ist. He married Dec. 25, 1825, Nancy Dean
Norton, who was born at Mansfield, Mass., Aug.
28, 1806. He died at Raynham July 28, 1852,
and she died at Taunton May 26, 1873. Their
children were: Thomas J., born Jan. 6, 1827,
died July 8, 1870 ; Emily, born April 28, 1828,
died Aug. 11, 1896; Nathan, born Dec. 29,
1829, died Dec. 4. 1904; Mary, born Oct. 37,
1832, died Nov. 4, 1855; Lucy, born Oct. 8,
1834, died Nov. 5, 1855 ; Laura, born Aug. 28,
1836, died May 21, 1887; Camilla, born :March
17, 1838, died Nov. 2, 1855 ; Arthur, born April
36, 1840, died Aug. 24, 1892; Miriam, born
Feb. 5, 1842, died Dec. 30, 1855; Jane, born
March 23, 1844, died Oct. 30, 1855; Juliet,
born April 5, 1846; and Martha, born Sept.
13, 1851, died Sept. 14, 1854.
(VIII) Thomas J. Washburn, son of Eli
King and Nancy Dean (Norton), was bom
Jan. 6, 1837, and died in the old Washburn
home at Raynham July 8, 1870. In 1849 he
went to California and remained there until
1863, during which time he made one trip back
home. On Nov. 25, 1866, at Taunton, he mar-
ried Mary Bowers Hall, born Jan. 13, 1834,
daughter of Andrew H. and Hannah W.
(Crane) Hall. To this union was born one
son, Harry Thomas, Nov. 34, 1868. Mrs. Wash-
burn and lier son reside in a modem home
recently erected on the old Hall property on
Dean street, Taunton.
SANFORD WINTER, for fifty years a resi-
dent of North Bridgewater and Brockton, ac-
tive in business, proprietor of the "Hotel Bel-
mont," president of the Brockton Savings Bank,
and former selectman and councilman, died at
his home. No. 31 Belmont street, Nov. 9, 1909,
in the eighty-third year of his age. He was
a native of Maine, born in Carthage, Franklin
county, Nov. 16, 1836, son of Joseph and
Phebe (Gray) Winter.
The name Winter is an early one in New
England, Christopher Winter appearing in
Plymouth in 1639, "where he was fined ten
shillings for publishing himself in marriage to
Jane Cooper, contrary to order and custom of
this government" ; whether Jane ever became
Mrs. Winter does not seem to be recorded. Win-
ter succeeded John Bradford in the occupancy
of Governor's island in 1660. At a still earlier
period, in 1636, John Winter was a proprietor
in Watertown, and died there in 1662; in his
will dated March 4, 1661, and proved in June,
1662, he mentions sons Richard and Thomas,
late of London, daughter Alice Lockman, of
London, and son John of Watertown, to whom
he gave his landed property. In 1683 the son
liad land assigned him in Cambridge Farms,
whither he went, and there died in 1690 ; in his
will of 1689 he speaks of his children, John,
Thomas, Samuel, Sarah, Hannah and Mary.
Cambridge Farms, it should be understood, be-
came Lexington. Of these two early Massa-
chusetts Winters, Christopher and John, the
former, so far as we have ascertained, left no
male issue. The Winter family with which this
article especially deals have it that their earliest
forbear of whom there is definite knowledge,
.Joseph Winter, was a native of Truro, in Barn-
stable county, this Commonwealth. But the vital
records of the town do not record his birth or
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family, uor does it appear that the family was
early there or that it has been continuous. In
the early part of the eighteenth century one
Samuel Winter was the schoolmaster in Truro
for several years, he being first employed at a
meeting of the town held in October, 1719. The
records of the town at that early period are only
fragmentary and from them little is to be
gleaned. This Joseph Winter referred to is
credited, too, as being a fifer in the war of
the Revolution, and as a young man with going
to the State of Maine. "Massachusetts Soldiers
and Sailors in the War of the Revolution" gives
an account of the services of a Joseph Winter,
as follows: "Return dated Newbury, Sept. 20,
1781, signed by the selectmen of bounties paid
said Winter and others to serve in the Conti-
nental Army for three years, or during the war,
agreeable to resolve of Dec. 2, 1780; said Win-
ter reported as having been engaged for the
war ; also return of men raised in Essex County
for Continental service, agreeable to resolve of
Dec. 2, 1780 ; engaged for the town of New-
bury; engaged July 2, 1781, term three years;
also fifer. Col. Benjamin Tupper's (10th) regi-
ment; service from July 15, 1781, 17 months,
17 days; reported promoted from private Dec.
1, 1781."
Joseph Winter, grandfather of the late San-
ford Winter, was born in Truro, Barnstable
county, where he was engaged in farming. He
was a "fifer in the Revolutionary war. As a
young man he settled in Maine, and in about
1814 removed to Carthage, that State, where
he continued at farming until his death, in
about 1833-33. He married Betsey Carver, of
early Plymouth and "Mayflower" stock, who
died in Carthage. Their children were: Bet-
sey, who married a Mr. Robinson; Mary (or
Polly), who married Jeremiah Whitney; Ben-
jamin, who married Olive Gray; Samuel Still-
man, who settled in Ohio; Joseph, mentioned
below; Olive, who married Joseph Whittier;
William, who married Anne Hutchinson ; Mar-
garet, who married William Hall ; and Han-
nah, who married Nathan Adams.
Joseph Winter (2), son of Joseph, was born
at Jay, Maine, and later removed with his
parents to Carthage, and there the remainder
of his life was spent in farming. He died
there of consumption June 5, 1845, aged fifty-
one years, ten days, and his remains were later
brought to Brockton, Mass., and interred in
Union cemetery. He married Phebe Gray, of
Carthage, who survived him, and married for
her second husband Jacob Williams, of South
Easton, Mass., where she died Oct. 25, 1853,
aged fifty-four years. To Mr. and Mrs. Winter
were born children as follows: Eveline, who
married James Smith, and died in Brockton
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ethan Allen ;
Elbridge Gerry, who married Hannah Adams,
and died in Carthage May 6, 1844; Mary
Coolidge, who married Abijah Pratt, and both
died in Roseville, 111.; Sanford, mentioned be-
low; Sophronia, who died aged three years;
Julia Ann, who died in infancy; Lorenzo Dow,
who died in Livermore, Maine, aged sixteen
years; Marilla Leach, who married George L.
Whitman, of Attleboro, Mass. ; and Henry Lee,
who was killed at the battle of the Wilderness
in the Civil war at the age of twenty -one (un-
married).
Sanford Winter was born Nov. 16, 1826, and
after the usual course of common school edu-
cation (his father dying when he was a young
man), the duties of the farm devolved upon
him. He conducted the home place for about
a year, when he sold it and removed to Jay,
Maine, working on a farm for two years, during
which time he attended school during the winter
months. At the end of that time, in 1850,
he went to North Easton, Mass., and entered
into partnership with his brother-in-law, Abijah
Pratt, of that town, in the buying and slaughter-
ing of cattle for the retail trade, under the firm
name of Pratt & Winter, the business at that
time requiring about one hundred and fifty
cattle per year, besides the smaller animals.
In 1855 the partnership was dissolved and Mr.
Winter continued in business alone, running
two retail wagons. During the stringent times
of 1857-58 he had pretty hard work, but ^we/it
through the panic safely, and in 1859 com-
menced the wholesale business in North Bridge-
water (now Brockton), in connection with the
retail business; in 1859 he purchased a farm
of Manley Packard on Pearl street, Brockton
Heights, removing to that locality in 1860. The
business continued to increase steadily until
1865, when a fire destroyed all his buildings
excepting his dwelling house, causing a severe
loss and throwing him out of business for about
a year. But phoenix-like, from the ashes of
the old buildings rose new and improved build-
ings, and many improvements were introduced.
The varied kinds ol^ business in connection with
the work were successfully conducted, giving
emplojrment to a number of hands.
To the original business of buying and
slaughtering for the retail and wholesale trade,
new departments, including rendering and
fertilizer plants and icehouses, had been added
from time to time, while the dealing in hides
and calfskins alone brought in thousands of
dollars annually. Several years ago Mr. Winter
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599
■conducted what was known as the Centre street
market, later a market in Whitman street, the
Franklin market, and various other markets,
besides the Boston Cash store. He personally
superintended all divisions of his business up to
within a few weeks of his death, daily visiting
the various ofBces, and keeping in touch with
the d€tails of each. This was a task that would
have appalled most men of half his years, for
at the last his business included the wholesale
establishment with traffic in hides and horns,
besides the actual sale of meats and provisions,
a retail market, grocery store and fish market,
and the "Hotel Belmont." But a year before
his death he had sold the interest he held in
the drug store at the comer of Main and Bel-
mont streets. His life had always been an
active one. In the early days he worked from
■early dawn far into the night, and he belonged
to that old schdol of business men who. by close
attention to every detail felt and made them-
selves personally responsible for every act of
business undertaken in their names.
Besides the above named Mr. Winter erected
the large brick block in 1881, at the corner
of Main and Belmont streets, where the "Old
Green Store" formerly stood. His corner lot
was 75x130 feet, and the building four stories
in height, the lower floor being used for stores.
The whole upper portion is the "Hotel Bel-
mont," and contains sixty-two rooms, besides
a splendid dining room, reading room and
billiard room. It is equipped with gas and
electricity, heated by steam, and altogether is
•one of the finest hotel structures in the county.
As its proprietor Mr. Winter was host to many
persons of national fame — statesmen, literary
men, clergymen, actors and business men, and
contact with men of widely different interests,
and a natural leaning toward the higher things
of life, gave him deeper knowledge and broader
charity.
Very few men possess the ability to conduct
successfully as many and as varied enterprises
as were \mder the control of Mr. Sanford
Winter. Starting in life with few advantages
he became a prominent, influential and well
known citizen, and among Brockton's most
active business men, one who did much toward
forwarding the interests of the town and open-
ing up new fields for the employment of labor,
aiding in the development of the city. Though
at the age beyond that usually allotted to man —
over fourscore years — he handled every depart-
ment of his extensive business with remark-
able skill, method and success. His physical
and mental strength were extraordinary, and
endured to his latest days. In spite of his
personal interests he was ever ready to take
part in public affairs, and work for the moral
and material welfare of the town. He was
honored by the town (then North Bridgewater)
in 1877 by being elected one of the board of
selectmen, and when the first council of the first
year of the city government of Brockton was
organized he was one of its members. It is
said of him that no man in the council "entered
into the solution of city problems with greater
zeal, and few men could take a more determined
stand when he believed himself to be right.
He was always recognized as a man
whose judgment in business matters merited the
highest consideration." He was a stanch Repub-
lican in political faith, but never a politician.
He was one of the original incorporators and
served as president of the Brockton Savings
Bank two years, and was a charter member of
the Commercial Club.
In his religious views Mr. Winter was at
one time a Methodist, and an active and in-
fluential member of Central Methodist Church,
and for a number of years a member of its
board of trustees. Later he united with the
First Congregational Church, where he was
once a pewholder, but not at the time of his
death.
On Oct. 31. 1852, Mr. Winter married Elvira
Ann, daughter of Enoch and Mehitabel Noyes,
of Jay, Maine, and to this iinion were born
the following children: Francis Eugene, born
May 6, 1856, died May 19, 1876 ; Hattie Louise,
born May 21, 1858, died April 17, 1883;
Everett Henry, born Aug. 9, 1862, who con-
ducted the "Hotel Belmont" until it was sold in
1910, and is now engaged in the beef and
fertilizer business at Brockton Heights, married
Oct. 13, 1892, Florence M., daughter of El-
bridge and Jane Benson, of Abingdon, Mass.
(no issue) ; and John Sanford, born Aug. 13,
1864, died July 8, 1875. The mother of these
children died Aug. 23, 1865, and Mr. Winter
married (second) Nov. 22, 1868, Sophia Tilton
Vincent, daughter of the late Matthew and
Sophia Vincent, of Edgartown, Mass. No chil-
dren were bom to this union. Mrs. Winter
died in January, 1904. Mr. Winter's death
came after an illness covering several weeks,
and the close of his active, useful life was
peaceful. He will long be missed from the
business life of Brockton, and from among the
many to whom he had been a rock of safety in
threatened storm. For the city of Brockton
he had been one who had laid the foundations
of her prosperity strong and deep, and he was
permitted to live to see the beauty and strength
that crowned his endeavors.
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EDWAED EVEEETT HAWES, M. D., a
well-known physician of Barnstable county,
with home and office at Hyannis, is a native
of the State of Maine, born at Troy March 5,
1862, son of Eobert and Emily Wentworth
Hawes.
The Hawes family from which the Doctor
descends is an old and prominent one of New
England. Four or more immigrants bearing
the name of Hawes came to New England be-
fore 1650 — Edmund Hawes, of Plymouth, Dux-
bury and Yarmouth; Edward, of Dedham;
Eobert, of Eoxbury; and Eichard, of Dor-
chester. It is with the last named that this
article has to deal.
(I) Eichard Hawes, aged twenty-nine, with
wife Ann, aged twenty-six, and children Ann
(or Anna), aged two and a half, and Obadiah,
aged six months, came from England in the
"Trulove" in 1635, and settled in Dorchester.
He was a freeman May 2, 1638. He had at
Dorchester: Bethiah, born July 27, 1637;
Deliverance, born June 11, 1640; Constance,
born July 17, 1642; and Eleazur, who married
Euth, daughter of Edmund Haynes, of Spring-
field, and was killed in King Philip's war April
81, 1676. Eichard Hawes died in January,
1657, for his inventory was taken the 27th
of that month, and his widow, says Savage,
perhaps, died at Eoxbury in 1663.
(II) Obadiah Hawes, son of Eichard, born
in England, at the age of six months as stated
came in the "Trulove" in 1635 to New Eng-
land with his father and family, who located
in Dorchester. He married Mary, daughter of
Elder James Humphrey, who died April 21,
1676. Mr. Hawes was a freeman in 1666, and
died Oct. 5, 1690. His children were: Obadiah,
born Aug. 20, 1663 ; James, born Dec. 18,
1664; Mary, bom Oct. 3, 1666 (died young) ;
Ebenezer, born Dec. 15, 1668 (died in ten
days); Desire, born Aug. 30, 1670; Eichard,
born Dec. 19, 1672; and Sarah, born Oct. 29,
1674.
(III) Obadiah Hawes (2), son of Obadiah,
born Aug. 20, 1663, married Dec. 19, 1693,
Eebecca, daughter of John Cowen, of Scituate.
(IV) Obadiah Hawes (3), son of Obadiah
(2), married Mary Cobb.
(V) Obadiah Hawes (4), son of Obadiah
(3), born in that part of Stoughton, Mass.,
that later became the town of Sharon, married
Tabitha Eichardson, daughter of John Eichard-
son, of Woburn, Mass. They early removed to
New Hampshire, and lived at various points in
that State. They had three sons and as many
daughters.
(VI) Nathan Hawes, son of Obadiah (4)
and Tabitha (Eichardson), married Phebe
Stevens. Mr. Hawes moved from Goffstown,
N. H., to Farmington, Maine, where his death
occurred about Nov. 1, 1845. When but six-
teen years of age he saw service in the war of
the Eevolution ; was a pa^-ticipant in the battle
of Bennington. His children were : Abigail,
Stephen J., Hannah, Nathan, Joseph, John,
David. Mary, Sally, Belinda and Betsey.
(VII) Stephen Johnson Hawes, son of
Nathan and Phebe (Stevens), born Dec. 6,
1784, in GofEstown, N. H., married (first)
Betsey Stearns, (second) Betsey Dal ton, who
died in Weld, Maine, June 4, 1829, and (third)
Sept. 4, 1831, Maria Masterman, who died
Feb. 10, 1884, in Weld, Maine. Mr. Hawes
died Jan. 26, 1865. His children were : Gil-
man, Leonard, John L., Nelson (died when
young), Eobert W. (all born to the first mar-
riage), Benjamin, Nelson, 'Betsey, David,
Stephen, LaFayette, Melvina L. (all born to
the second marriage)-, Phebe M., George F.,
Alpheus P., Isabella E., John M., WiUiam A.,
Charles E. and Leander E.
(VIII) Eobert Wallace Hawes, son of
Stephen Johnson and Betsey (Stearns), born
Jan. 3, 1816, at Goffstown, in the State of
New Hampshire, lived for a time in Albion,
Maine, and then moved to Troy in that same
State, where he died Oct. 1, 1897. He married
March 30, 1843, Emily Wentworth, who was
born April 13, 1882, in Albion, Maine, daugh-
ter of Timothy and Abigail (Black) Went-
worth, the latter a daughter of Joab Black,
a native of York, Maine, who was a soldier of
the Revolution and was at the battle of Bunker
Hill. Mrs. Hawes also descended from .John
Wentworth, of England, 1626, who belonged
to the Wenthworths of Wentworth Castle, an
ancient family, who came to England with
William the Conqueror. The Colonial gover-
nors of New Hampshire and "Long John"
Wentworth, one time mayor of the city of
Chicago, were of this family. The children of
Mr. and Mrs. Eobert W. Hawes, all but the two
youngest born in Albion, were: Timothy W.,
born Jan. 31, 1844; Charles W., born Dec. 7,
1846; Lizzie E., born Aug. 17, 1849; George
E., born Aug. 8, 1851 ; Walter E., born Mav 3,
1853; Abbie M., born Oct. 1, 1855; Frederick
M., born Sept. 8, 1859; and Edward E., born
March 5, 1868. All are living except Abigail,
who died in young womanhood.
(IX) Edward Everett Hawes received a
liberal education, attending the Maine Central
Institute, also Bowdoin College, and the
medical school of the University of New York,
as well as the medical school of the Universitv
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of Vermont, from which latter he graduated in
1886 with the degree of M. D. Meantime, be-
fore his graduation, he taught school several
years, first at Detroit, Maine, in 1877, when but
sixteen years old, later at Harwich, in 1882,
and at Yarmouth, Mass., where he continued
until 1888. In 1886 he had be^n medical prac-
tice at Harwich, Mass., and two years later
moved to Hyannis, where he was located for
eight or nine years. After that, seeing a wider
field in Boston, he settled in that city, where he
continued to follow his profession until April,
1909, at that time returning to Hyannis, where
he is still in active practice. He still lectures
at Boston, however, on surgical subjects, giving
special instruction on fractures and dislocations
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
His profession has brought him honor and
success, and his standing among his fellow
practitioners is as high as among his patrons.
Dr. Hawes married Emily Crowell, of West
Yarmouth, daughter of Capt. Elkanah and
Susan (Crowell) Crowell (of the same stock
but very distantly related). Her father, now
a retired sea captain, is a son of Elkanah
and Eliza (Bacon) Crowell, and a descend-
ant of Elkanah Crowell, son of Yelverton
Crowell, the Pilgrim; two Crowell brothers
came from Plymouth to Barnstable, Elkanah
going; to Yarmouth. ' Mrs. Hawes was born at
Yarmouth and educated there and at Brock-
ton, attending high school at the latter place.
While still young she sailed in her father's
vessel, and rounded Cape Horn twice. She
takes a deep interest in botany, and has given
much time to the study of many varieties of
wildflowers, in which her husband is also in-
terested.
The Doctor is a Mason, belonging to Frater-
nal Lodge, A. E. & A. M., and Orient Chapter,
E. A. M., both of Hyannis, and to Palestine
Commandery, K. T., of Chelsea, Mass. ; he is
also a member of the Scottish Rite. He holds
membership in the Massachusetts Sons of the
American Revolution ; is a member of the
Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the
American Medical Association. He attends the
Universalist Church. Politically he is an inde-
pendent Republican.
KIRBY. The name Kirby so far as relates
to the old family has been a continuous one
and the family a numerous one in New Eng-
land for now some two hundred .and seventy
years and more — since approximately 1636,
only a decade and a half later than the coming
hither of the Pilgrim Fathers; and here, in
what was Ancient or Old Dartmouth, it has
been established since not far from 1660-70,
and given a good account of itself in the march
of progress that has steadily intervened, and
developed a great section. Richard Kirby, the
immigrant and progenitor of the race in ques-
tion, was one of the founders of Sandwich,
as he was later of Dartmouth, and here many
of his posterity have made an honorable place
for themselves in local history. This article,
however, has only to do with one branch of the
Kirbys — some of the descendants of the
brothers Justus and Wesson Kirby, men of the
fifth generation from this settler, and whose
farms joined each other in that part of Dart-
mouth which later became the town of West-
port, where and at New Bedford later genera-
tions of their posterity have been prominent
and influential citizens, some occupying high
and honorable positions in the public service
of their communities and for unusually long
periods of time. Among the earlier generations
may be mentioned Luther, Benjamin, Wesson
and Abraham ; and of the succeeding genera-
tion Avary, Stephen P., Wesson, Jr. and Hon.
George, all substantial men and useful citizens,
and the latter of whom had the privilege of
representing his town — Dartmouth — for ten
years in the State Assembly, of serving his
community upward of twenty years as select-
man and overseer of the poor, for about that
same length of time as collector and treasurer,
and for over sixty years as surveyor of wood
and lumber ; while in the succeeding generation
among the worthies have been the present Wil-
liam Avery Kirby, now venerable in years and
retired, long an honorable and substantial
citizen and a representative on the board of
directors of several of the financial institutions
of New Bedford ; the late Humphrey S. Kirby,
long one of the successful business men of New
Bedford and for seventeen years a member of
the school committee ; and the present Hon.
Albert C. Kirby, who has several times repre-
sented the towns of Westport and Dartmouth
in the State Assembly, and for thirty-one years
served Bristol county as a deputy sheriff, and
the latter's son. Dr. Holder C. Kirby, who has
attained high place in the medical profession ;
and several other sons of these men who are
worthily wearing the family name.
There follows in chronological order some
family history and genealogy of the branch of
Kirbys already indicated.
(I) Richard Kirby appears first of record in
New England in 1636, as an inhabitant of
Lynn, Mass. He with others in 1637 removed to
Cape Cod and began the settlement of Sand-
wich. He shared in the division of land in
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1641, and in 1643 his name appears on the list
of those able to bear arms. He was one of the
eleven male members whose names are found on
the first recorded list of members of the Puritan
Church of Sandwich. It was here, in Sand-
wich, so far as known, that the first persons in
this country embraced the principles of the
Friends. Among these was Kichard Kirby, yet
it is not certain that he ever became a member
of the Society of Friends. It is known that in
1684 he took the oath of fidelity, and neither
his name nor that of his son Richard appears
AS a member in the church records of the
Friends. He removed to Dartmouth some time
after 1660. He purchased a half share of land
there in 1670, and in 1683 he bought land on
the west side of Cocksett river. He died in
Dartmouth in June or July, 1688. The sur-
name of his wife is unknown, but her Christian
name appears to have been Jane. His children
appear to have been Jane, Sarah (born in
1638), Ruhamah, Richard and Recompence.
(II) Richard Kirby (2), probably born be-
fore 1638, married Oct. 9, 1665, Patience,
daughter of William Gifford, of Sandwich,
Mass. The name of Mr. Kirby is found among
the twenty-four inhabitants of Sandwich who
in October, 1660, were each fined ten shillings
for attending Quaker meetings. Together with
his father he suffered the distraint of fifteen
cows to satisfy fines imposed. Some time after
his marriage he removed to Dartmouth. His
wife died after May 30, 1674, and he married
(second) Dec. 8, 1678, Abigail, widow of Zoeth
Howland. His children, all born to the first
marriage, were: Sarah, born May 1, 1667;
Experience, May 5, 1670 ; Temperance, May 5,
1670 ; John, March 2, 1672 ; and Robert, May
10, 1674.
(III) Robert Kirby, born May 10, 1674,
married Rebecca, born in 1673, daughter of
Nathaniel Potter, of Portsmouth, R. I. Mr.
Kirby was a member of the Society of Friends,
and lived in that part of Dartmouth which in
1787 became the town of Westport, and near
the Coaxit river; on either side of which stream,
according to the proprietary records of Dart-
mouth, there were laid out in 1712 for Mr.
Kirby's homestead 212 acres of land. Mr.
Kirby died in 1757. His widow Rebecca died
in 1772. Their children were: Patience,
Nathaniel, Ichabod, Recompence, Silas, Robert
and Barsheba. Mr. Kirby bought in 1728 from
Benjamin Waite tlie farm and house, the latter
of which in 1904 was the oldest standing in
Old Dartmouth. The center part of it was
built by Thomas Waite in Central Village,
Westport, about 1677, on land that remained
in the Waite family until 1728, when, as stated,
it passed into the hands of Mr. Kirby ; and in
1904 it was the oldest Kirby house then stand-
ing.
(IV) Nathaniel Kirby married March 25,
1731, Abigail, born June 25, 1712, daughter
of James and Rebecca (Howland) Russel, of
Dartmouth. Mr. Kirby was a member of the
Society of Friends. He died probably early in
the year 1748, as in his will of Nov. 5, 1747,
and approved in August, 1748, he speaks of
himself as "being very sick and weak in body."
His children were: Wesson, born Oct. 14,
1731; Rebecca, June 26, 1733; Lydia, Nov. 20,
1738; Mary, March 15, 1743; and Justus,
April 28, 1746. The mother of these was a
direct descendant of Ralph Russel, who came
from Pontypool, Monmouthshire, England, to
New England, and for a time, according to
Savage, was likely engaged in the iron works
in Taunton with the Leonards, then located
in Dartmouth, from whom her descent is
through John Russell, who bought in 1664 one
share (800 acres) of Dartmouth lands, and
set up an iron forge at what was later called
Rus-sell's Mills, was much employed in public
affairs, a number of times representative in the
General Court, etc. ; Jonathan Russel and his
wife Hassadyah (Smith), and James Russell
and his wife Rebecca (Howland).
(V) Justus Kirby, born April 28, 1746 (ac-
cording to Dartmouth record), or A])ril 18,
1747 (according to the family Bible), married
Dec. 27, 1768, Catherine, born April. 14, 1751,
daughter of Peleg and Mary (Russell) Cornell.
They lived in that part of Dartmouth which
became the town of Westport, where he died
Jan. 5, 1831, and she, Aug. 27, 1833. His
farm joined that of his brother Wesson. His
home was located a little north of the site
of the present town almshouse. Their children
were: Lydia, May 6, 1770; Luthan, born Feb.
23, 1774": Abner, July 10, 1771 ; and Elizabeth,
Oct. 1, 1781. The mother was a direct descend-
ant of Thomas Cornell, of Portsmouth, R. I.,
who came from the County of Essex, England,
to Boston, about 1638, and removed to Ports-
mouth, R. I., in 1640, from whom her descent
is tlirough Samuel, of Dartmouth, Thomas
Cornell and his wife Catherine (Potter), and
Peleg Cornell and his wife Mary (Russell).
(V) Wesson Kirby, born Oct. 14, 1731, in
Dartmouth, married there Feb. 23, 1750,
Hannah, born in 1731, daughter of William
White, of Dartmouth. They resided in that
part of the latter town which in 1787 became
the town of Westport, and near the small fork
of the river above the bridge. Mr. Kirby was
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surveyor of the highways in 1771, 1775, 1776,
1780 and 1781 ; was also selectman and assessor,
in 1779. He died in Westport Oct. 9, 1798,
aged sixty-seven years. His widow Hannah
passed away in 1819 at Westport, Mass. Their
children were: Nathan, born July 4, 1751;
William, March 21, 1753; Sarah, April 11,
1755; George, March 9, 1757; Wesson, April
15, 1759; Elihu, June 13, 1761; Benjamin,
June 18, 1763 ; Jonathan, July 14, 1765 ; Mary,
in 1767; Hannah, July 19, 1769; Ruth, Oct.
19, 1771; Paul, Oct. 20, 1773; Abraham, Dec.
11. 1775; and Elizabeth. The mother of these
was a direct descendant of Francis Cooke, of
the "Mayflower," 1620, from whom her descent
is through Elder John Cooke, of Plymouth and
Dartmouth, and his wife Sarah (Warren), she
a daughter of Richard Warren, also of the
"Mayflower"; Arthur Hathaway and his wife
Sarah (Cooke), of Marshfield and Dartmouth;
George Cadman and his wife Hannah (Hatha-
way) ; and William White and his wife Eliza-
beth (Cadman).
(VI) Abraham Kirby, son of Wesson, born
Dec. 11, 1775, in that part of Dartmouth which
became the town of Westport, married Feb. -3,
1803, Eunice, daughter of Obed and Sarah
(Peckham) White, he a son of George and
Deborah (Shaw) White and grandson of Wil-
liam White, of Dartmouth, the latter of whom
is believed by some (and while there are no
positive records yet found of the connection
there are evidences pointing to it) to be a son
of Samuel White, of Rochester, who was the
son of Resolved White and grandson of William
White, of the "Mavflower," 1620 (see pp. 347-
348. "The Kirbys'of New England"). This
William White, of Dartmouth, moreover, mar-
ried Elizabeth Cadman, a direct descendant of
Francis Cooke, of the "Mayflower." The chil-
dren of Abraham and Eunice (White) Kirby,
all born in the town of Westport, Mass., were:
Amy, bom Jan. 20, 1804; Abner, May 4, 1806 ;
Harvey, in 1810; Deborah, Dec. 24, 1812;
Stephen P., April 9, 1815; and Harvey W.,
Sept. 8, 1819.
(VII) Stephen P. Kirby, son of Abraham,
born April 9, 1815, married (first) June 30,
1839, Harriet N., born May 18, 1820, daugh-
ter of Nathan Crary Brownell, of Westport,
Mass. She died May 21, 1857, and he married
(second) Jan. 1, 1871, Diana, born in 1842,
daughter of Charles M. and Desire Macomber,
of Tiverton. R. I. Mr. Kirby lived at West-
port, Mass., where for many years be was a
<lrover and large cattle merchant, buying cattle
at Brighton, and distributing them through
southern Massachusetts. His children were:
Albert C, born March 17, 1841 ; Wilfred Smith,
July 31, 1843 (died Jan. 3, 1878) ; Edward
B., Sept. 21, 1847 (died at sea in 1862) ; Frank
R., May 28, 1850 (married Oct. 11, 1877, Cora
L. Eddy, and is in business in New Bedford) ;
Henry P., Aug. 15, 1856 (died March 1, 1862).
(VIII) Albert C. Kirby, son of Stephen
P., born March 17, 1841, married Jan. 21, 1869,
Cynthia White Brownell, born Aug. 15, 1843,
daughter of Holder and Love (Baker) Brovmell,
the former a great-grandson of Abner Brownell,
the first town clerk of Westport, and the latter
a daughter of Ezra and Susan Baker. Mr.
Kirby has long been one of the substantial and
influential men of Bristol county. He was
elected collector of taxes in Westport in 1863,
and held office for four years. In 1863 he
was elected town clerk, and held that office
six years. He was a justice of the peace and
auctioneer for about thirty-four years. He
was made deputy sheriff of the county in 1879,
and true to the example set by earlier genera-
tions of the Dartmouth-Westport-New Bedford
Kirbys proved an efficient and faithful public
servant, and like them a "stayer," for he sus-
tained such relation to Bristol county for thirty
years. In 1894 he was made special deputy
sheriff. In politics he has always been a stanch
Republican. More recently he has been en-
gaged in business in New Bedford, being now
a member of the firm of Kirby & Hicks, livery-
men. In 1890 and 1891 Mr. Kirby represented
the towns of Westport and Dartmouth in the
Massachusetts Assembly.
The children of Albert C. and Cynthia
Wiite (Brownell) Kirby were: Holder Crary,
born Aug. 8, 1874 ; and Wilfred Stephen, born
Feb. 3, 1883, who is in business with his father.
(IX) Holder C. Kirby, M. D., son of Al-
bert C. and Cynthia White (Brownell), was
born in the town of Dartmouth Aug. 8, 1874.
His early education was acquired in the public
schools' of New Bedford, from which he
graduated in the class of 1893. He then
entered Brown University, taking the regular
course for three years and doing special work
in biology. He graduated from the medical de-
partment of the University of Pennsylvania in
1900, with the degree of M. D. During his
course he gave special attention to the study
of pathology. After receiving his degree he
went to Pittsburg, Pa., as resident physician
at Mercy hospital, after which he spent three
months in the Children's hospital at Phila-
dephia, and five months in the Municipal hos-
pital. He was at the latter place during the
great smallpox epidemic in the fall of 1901,
when about three thousand cases, were treated
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in the hospital, about a third proving fatal.
In 1902 he opened an office in Pittsburg, Pa.,
and remained there until Dec. 1st, when he
located in New Bedford, opening an office,
where he has continued most successfully in his
practice. In January, 1903, he was appointed
city physician, and this office he has continued
to fill. In October, 1904, he was made assistant
surgeon, at St. Luke's hospital, and in March,
1906, he was elected surgeon. He is a member
and former counselor of the Massachusetts
Medical Society; member of the South Bristol
District and New Bedford Medical Societies,
and of the American Medical Association. He
is also a member of the Boston Medical Library.
While a student at Brown University Dr.
Kirby was a member of the Chi Phi Greek
letter society, and at the University of Penn-
sylvania he belonged to the Theta Nu Epsilon
and Alpha Mu Pi Omega of the medical de-
partment. He also belonged to the Pepper
Medical Society.
Dr. Kirby married Mary Eleanor, daughter
of Thomas F. and Ellen L. Wood, of New Bed-
ford. They have no children.
FEED HERBERT PACKARD, of Brock-
ton, one of the enterprising and successful
business men of that city, is prominently iden-
tified with manufacturing interests, being pro-
prietor of the well known shoe tool concern
of Snell & Atherton, Incorporated, one of the
pioneer industries of old North Bridgewater
(now Brockton), the business having been
established by his father-in-law, Varanus Snell.
Its products are known the world over. Mr.
Packard is a worthy descendant of one of
New England's earliest settled families. He
was born Feb. 3, 1854, in West Bridgewater,
son of the late Japhet Beals and Lucretia
Parker (Dunbar) Packard. The history of
this branch of the Packard family follows :
(I) Samuel Packard, with his wife and
child, came from Windham, England, in 1638,
in the ship "Diligence," and settled in
Hingham, Mass., where in that same year he
had a grant of land. He removed from Hing-
ham and became a resident of what is now
West Bridgewater, Mass. He was constable
in 1664, and in 1670 was licensed to keep a
tavern. His will was dated in 1684, which
was about the time of his death. His children
baptized in Hingham were: Zaccheus, April
20, 1651 ; Jane, April 20, 1651 ; Abigail, April
20, 1651; and Deliverance, July 11, 1652. He
had other children : Elizabeth, Samuel, Thomas,
John, Nathaniel, Mary, Hannah, Israel, Jael
and Deborah.
(II) Nathaniel Packard, son of Samuel,
married a daughter of John Kangman, and
their children were: Samuel, Zachariah,
George, Fearnot, Margaret, Sarah, Lydia,
Faithful, Hannah, Deliverance, Elizabeth,
Mary and Deborah. The father's \vill bears
date of 1720.
(III) Zachariah Packard, son of Nathaniel,
married in 1724 Abigail, daughter of Richard
Davenport, and their children were : Elijah,
born in 1726 ; Abigail, born in 1728; Nathaniel,
born in 1730; and Nathan, born in 1733. The
father's will was dated in 1771.
(IV) Capt. Nathan Packard, born in 1733,
married in 1758 Lydia, daughter of Ephraim
Jackson, and their children were : Oliver,
Elijah, Nathan, Ransom, Perez, Sullivan,
Jonas, Sarali, Abigail, Lydia, Olive, Roxana.
The father died on Feb. 17, 1798, aged sixty-
five years, and the mother died April 1, 1812.
Capt. Nathan Packard was active in the war
of the Revolution. He was first lieutenant in
Capt. Josiah Hayden's company. Col. Bailey's
regiment, which served as minute-men, march-
ing on April 19, 1775, on the Lexington alarm.
He was captain of a company in Col. Thomas
Carpenter's regiment of State militia, from
July 25, to Sept. 9, 1778, in service in Rhode
Island, and was also captain of a company in
Maj. Eiiplialet Cary's regiment that nvirched
on the Rhode Island alarm, July 22, 1780, by
order of council from North Bridgewater.
(V) Elijah Packard, son of Capt. Nathan,
married in 1789 Susanna, daughter of Japhet
Beal. Their children were: Lewis, born in
1789; Libbeus, born in 1791; Lydia, born in
1793; Isaac, born in 1795; Elijah, born in
1797; Clara, born in 1799; Patience, born in
1801 ; Susanna, born in 1803 ; Nathan, born
in 1806 ; Sophronia, born in 1808 ; and Den-
nison, born in 1811. The father died in 1832,
aged sixty-six years, and his widow died in
1849, aged seventy-eight years.
(VI) Isaac Packard was born May 2, 1795.
in West Bridgewater, Mass., where he died at
the age of about thirty-three years. He was
a farmer and shoemaker. He married in 1816
Mary Jones Foster, of Whitman, Mass., and
after his death she married (second) Ezekiel
Ripley, of Plympton, Mass., where she died.
She was the mother of the following children :
Orlando H., who died at the age of nineteen
years; Japhet B., mentioned below; and Perez
(a /Shoemaker), who married Mercy Sherman,
of Plympton, and died in Rockland, Massachu-
setts.
(VII) Japhet Beals Packard, son of Isaac
and Mary J. (Foster) Packard, was born Sept.
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7, 1819, in Easton, Mass. He died June 2,
1909, at his home on North Ehn street in West
Bridgewater, in which town lie had resided for
over eighty years. While he was still very
young his parents removed to that part of
West Bridgewater known as Jerusalem, and he
was seven years old when they settled in the
more central part of the town, where he lived
upon a farm near the site of his late home.
He received his education in the public schools,
and among his classmates were Benjamin B.
Howard (founder of Howard Seminary),
Charles Howard, Horatio Howard, John Dun-
bar and Elihu Leonard, all of whom long pre-
ceded him in death. When sixteen years old he
went to Plympton, whence after a residence of
five j'ears he returned to West Bridgewater,
where he continued to make his home during
the remainder of his long life. He learned the
trade of shoemaker with his stepfather, Ezekiel
Ripley, at Plympton, remaining with him five
or six years ; and for fifty years in all followed
that calling. He began it in the primitive days
when shoes were made in small shops near the
home of the tradesman, and Mr. Packard em-
ployed several hands in his .shop. None of
the work was done by machine at that time.
When the various manufacturers began to do
business upon a larger scale and the smaller
business men were crowded out he became em-
ployed at the P. & N. Copeland factory, in
Campello, where he acted as superintendent.
About twenty years prior to his death he gave
up shoemaking in order to spend more time
in the open air, working considerably upon his
farm and carrying on a large garden. For
several years he also had charge of Pine Hill
cemetery, in West Bridgewater. In fact, he
continued to be active up to within a short
time before his decease, always finding some-
thing to do about the farm and home.
Mr. Packard's devotion to outdoor sports
continued to be one of his chief sources of en-
joyment until a few weeks before he died. He
was considered the best marksman with a rifle
in all the region, and except for the last five
years of his life never missed the annual fall
outing at Brant Rock, where with his gun and
his dog he went for several days' shooting
along the seashore. In 1895, at the age of
seventy-six, he purchased a bicycle, which he
rode for nearly ten years. He was always a
special favorite with children, and was in-
terested in watching young folks at their sports,
when they gathered at play near his home. He
was well known to old and young, and among
all classes, and had scores of friends and well
wishers wherever he went. He never took any
special part in public affairs and would never
accept office, though he was public-spirited and
attended town meetings regularly. His word
and opinion carried great weight, and he gave
his support to all enterprises intended for the
benefit of the public, and he was a regular
voter at local and national elections.
On Sept. 25, 1843, Mr. Packard married
Lucretia Parker Dunbar, daughter of Perez
and Nancy (Willis) Dunbar. She was born
in North Bridgewater, but at the time of her
marriage was living in West Bridgewater,
where the ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr.
Cogswell. In 1844 they moved into the home
on North Elm street where they ever after-
ward resided, and there they celebrated the
silver and golden anniversaries of their wed-
ding. Their wedded life covered over sixty-
five years, Mrs. Packard passing away Feb. 32,
1910, in the eighty-fifth year of her age. Six
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Packard:
Hattie married Edward C. Hall, of Freeport,
Maine, and is now a widow, residing in Whit-
man, Mass. ; Lucius Sumner, who resides in
Walpole, Mass., married Helen E. Ripley;
Fred Herbert is mentioned below; Charles
Everett married Eugenia Young and resides
in West Bridgewater; Ernest Lincoln died at
the age of thirty-two years ; Jennie Beals died
aged eighteen years.
(VIII) Fred Herbert Packard, son of
Japhet Beals and Lucretia Parker (Dunbar)
Packard, was born Feb. 2, 1854, in West
Bridgewater, Mass., and acquired his early
schooling in the common schools of his native
town. Leaving school when about sixteen years
of age, he took up shoemaking with his father,
continuing at home until he had reached the
age of twenty. He then came to Campello,
where he worked at shoemaking for Elmer L.
Keith, George E. Keith and C. W. Copeland
& Co., respectively, until Feb. 18, 1880, when
he entered the employ of Snell & Atherton, as
a machinist on the making of machine tools,
in which capacity he remained for about six
years. Later he was made bookkeeper and
salesman, as well as shipper, for the concern,
acting as such until about 1898, at which time
he became a partner in the business. On Jan.
1, 1903, he became sole ovraer of the business,
the founder, Mr. Snell, retiring. In January,
1907, the business was chartered as an in-
corporation under the Massachusetts laws as
Snell & Atherton, Incorporated, with Fred H.
Packard as president and treasurer, and War-
ren B. Packard (his son) as clerk of the
corporation. This well known concern is en-
gaged in the manufacture of hand tools of all
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kinds for shoe workers, and duplicate parts
for shoe machinery of various kinds, their
products having a world-wide reputation for
perfection and uniform quality. They are
used in every country where shoes are made.
The firm gives employment to about twenty
expert and skilled mechanics, several of whom
have been connected with this concern con-
tinuously for nearly fifty years.
Mr. Packard has also been successfully en-
gaged in the real estate business to some ex-
tent. In 1888-89 he opened up two tracts of
land on Herrod and Martland streets, and sev-
enty lots were disposed of. He also owns
various other plots in different parts of the
city.
Mr. Packard is of a musical turn of mind,
and for about twelve years was a member of
Martland's Band, in which he played first
clarinet; during four years of that time he
was secretary and treasurer of that well-known
musical organization. In politics he is a stanch
supported of the principles of the Republican
party, and he has always manifested a keen
interest in the affairs of his adopted city. In
1892 he served as a member of the common
council, and in 1896 and 1897 he was a mem-
ber of the board of aldermen, from Ward Seveji,
being president of the board the last year.
During the first year he was a member of the
latter board he was a member of the committees
on Finance, Accounts, Highways and Health,
and the last year was chairman of the above
committees, and also a member of the police
committee.
For a number of years Mr. Packard has been
prominently identified with various financial
institutions of Brockton, having served for
eleven years as a trustee of the People's Sav-
ings Bank, since which time he has been a
trustee of the Brockton Savings Bank, which
he has served several years as a member of the
board of investment, and in April, 1910, was
elected second vice president. He has also been
a director for a number of years of the Se-
curity Cooperative Bank of Brockton.
Fraternally Mr. Packard is an active and
prominent member of the Masonic organization
of many years' standing, holding membership
in St. George Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Cam-
pello, of which he became a member in 1877;
Satucket Chapter, R. A. M. (of which he has
been a member over twenty years) ; Brockton
Council, R. & S. M. ; and Bay State Com-
mandery. Knights Templar, of Brockton; he
also belongs to Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine,
of Boston, which he joined in 1889, and is a
life member of the lodge, chapter and com-
mandery. In 1874 he joined Massasoit Lodge,.
No. 69, I. 0. 0. F., and he has been a member
for many years of the Commercial Club of
Brockton, which is composed of the city's lead-
ing business and professional men.
On June 29, 1882, Mr. Packard was united
in marriage to Idella Abbiette Snell, daughter
of Varanus Snell, the founder of the Snell &
Atherton concern, and his wife, Emily Hewins
Gill, of Brockton, and this union has been
blessed with one son, Warren Belcher, bom
July 14, 1887. He graduated from the Brock-
ton high school in 1906, after which he at-
tended Phillips Exeter Academy. He then took
a business course at Bryant & Stratton's Busi-
ness College, Boston, and is now a member of
Snell & Atherton, Incorporated, to which he
was admitted as a partner early in 1909, hav-
ing started at the bench and forge in the tool
shop in 1908. He is also a member of St.
George Lorge, A. F. & A. M., of Campello;
Satucket Chapter, R. A. M. ; Brockton Council,
E. & S. M. ; and Bay State Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Brockton; holding a life
membership in the latter three bodies. He is
also a member of the Brockton Country Club
and the Commercial Club. He is unmarried,
and resides at home with his parents.
WALTER HAMLET FAUNCE, chairman
of the board of county commissioners of Ply-
mouth county, Mass., is a lineal descendant of
John Faunce, who was the progenitor of a large
and well established family in New England,
members of which have for generations made
their home in Kingston, Plymouth county.
(I) John Faunce came to Plymouth in the
"Ann" in August, 1633. He was, perhaps,
then a youth, as no wife or child is mentioned
for a decade. He was a freeman in 1633, in
which year he married Patience, daughter of
George Morton, and had : Priscilla, who mar-
ried Joseph, son of Richard Warren, of the
"Mayflower" ; Mary, who married July 15, 1658,
William Harlow ; Patience, who married Nov.
20, 1661, John Holmes; Sarah, who married
Feb. 26, 1663, Edward Doty, son of Edward
of the "Mayflower," and (second) John Buck;
Thomas, born about 1647; Elizabeth, bom
March 23, 1648; Mercy, born April 10, 1651,
who married in December, 1667, Nathaniel
Holmes; Joseph, born May 14, 1653; and John,
born Nov. 29, 1654 (probably died young).
(II) Joseph Faunce, son of John, bom May
14, 1653, married Jan. 3, 1677, Judith Rickard,
daughter of John and Judith Rickard. Their
children were: Hannah, born 1679; Mary,
born 1681 (married Nathaniel Morton) ; John,
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born 1683; Mary, born 1686; Mehitabel, born
1689 (married Judah Hill) ; Joseph, born
1693; Eleazer, born 1696; Thomas, born 1698
(married Hannah Damon) ; and Benjamin,
born 1703.
(III) John Faunce, son of Joseph, born
1683, married in 1710 Lydia, born in 1685,
daughter of Jacob Cooke, granddaughter of
Jacob and Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke (the lat-
ter a daughter of Stephen Hopkins, of the
"Mayflower," 1680), and great-granddaughter
of Francis Cooke, of the "Mayflower," 1620.
The children of John and Lydia (Cooke)
Faunce were: Judith, bom in 1711, who
married Jabez Washburn; Lydia, born in
1714, who married Ebenezer Washburn; John,
bom in 1716; Hannah, born in 1718, who mar-
ried Charles Cook; Mary, born in 1720;
Mehetabel, born in 1722, who married Thomas
Cushman; and Rebecca, born in 1724, who mar-
ried Tillson Ripley, of Plympton. The father
married (second) in 1733 Ruth Sampson, and
their only child was Mary, bom in 1734, who
married Amos Curtis, of Scituate. He mar-
ried (third) Lydia (Tilden) Cook, widow of
Simeon Cook, and by this union had a son
Benjamin, born in 1742.
(IV) John Faunce, son of John, was bom
in 1716, and was of Kingston. He married
Hannah, widow of Robert Cook, and daughter
of Elijah Bisbee. Their children were : Lydia,
bom in 1746, who married Josiah Cook ; John,
born in 1747; Hannah, bom in 1749; Eleazer,
born in 1751; Eleanor, born in 1753; Molly,
born in 1755, who married John Cook; Joanna,
born in 1757, who married Zenas Cook ; Elijah,
bom in 1759; Sarah, born in 1760; and Sarah
(2), bom in 1764.
(V) Elijah Faunce, of Kingston, son of
John and Hannah, born in March, 1759, mar-
ried in 1785 Lydia, daughter of Ichabod Water-
man, and their children were : Elijah, bom
in 1787, who died aged fifteen years; Kilborn,
bom in 1789; Nathaniel, born in 1791; Lydia,
born in 1793, who married Spencer Bradford ;
Sally (twin), born in 1793; and Charles Cook,
born May 21, 1801.
(VI) Charles Cook Faunce, son of Elijah
and Lydia (Waterman), was born in Kingston,
Mass., May 21, 1801. He was educated in the
local schools, and then learned the mason's
trade, which he followed nearly all his life,
being engaged as a builder in stone and brick.
His home was always in his native town, and
be became greatly interested in public affairs.
For fifteen years he held the office of town
clerk, and also filled several minor positions.
He died Oct. 26, 1878, and was buried in
Kingston. He married Amelia Washburn, who
was born in Kingston Jan. 7, 1807, daughter
of Seth and Sarah (Adams) Washburn, and
died Oct. 8, 1881 ; she was buried beside her
husband. Their children were: Walter Ham-
let, born Nov. 16, 1832; Amelia Washburn,
born March 1, 1834, who married George
McLaughlin (both are deceased) ; Charles
Thomas, born April 19, 1835, who lives at
Kingston; and Sewall Allen, born Feb. 9, 1841,
who resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
(VII) Walter Hamlet Faunce, son of Charles
Cook and Amelia (Washburn), was born in
Kingston, Mass., Nov. 16, 1832. He received'
a good education, first attending the public
schools in his home town, and then going to the
East Greenwich Academy, East Greenwich,
R. I. Returning to Kingston he began teach-
ing, and for fifteen years was thus engaged ini
the public schools of his native town. He then
began surveying and civil engineering, in which
he has since been more or less engaged in Kings-
ton and adjoining towns, but the best part of
his life has been given to public affairs. He
has served as selectman, overseer of the poor
and assessor for a number of years, during eight
years being chairman of the board of select-
men. In 1882 Mr. Faunce was elected county
commissioner of Plymouth county, and with
tlie exception of five years, from 1885 to 1890,
he has since served continuously in that office,
and for eight years has been chairman of the
board. During his long service many public
improvements have been effected — new build-
ings and bridges, including the fine courthouse
at Brockton, and the registry building at Ply-
mouth, both from an architectural standpoint
among the best in the State; the bridges at
Buzzard's Bay and over the North river in
the town of Hanson. At the present time there
is in coiirse of construction the new prison at
Plymouth, built of concrete, which contains
one h^indred and fifty-nine cells. Mr. Faunce
is conscientious in his work, and having, from
long experience, a general knowledge of all
matters pertaining to town or county affairs,
is able to see that the contracts are honestly
carried out. In 1880 he was elected to the
State Legislature, where he served as a mem-
ber of the committee on Insurance. He has
been active in work for the public schools, and
for a quarter of a century has been a member
of the school board, and many years its
chairman. In 1867 he was appointed by
Governor Ames a justice of the peace, and has
held that commission ever since, probably being
the oldest justice in point of service in the
State. He is a member of the State Board of
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Agriculture, and is vice president of the Marsh-
field Agricultural Society, and for a number
of years was vice president of the Plymouth
County Agricultural Society. Fraternally he
belongs to Corner Stone Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
of Duxbury; and Adams Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., of
Kingston. He attends the Unitarian Church.
In December, 1863, Mr. Faunce was married
to Arabella Ryder, daughter of Merrick and
Lucy Ryder, of Plymouth. She died in Kings-
ton in May, 1870, and was buried in the New
cemetery. They had two children: Lucy D.,
born July 28, 1865, who resides at home, un-
married ; and Charles M., mentioned below. Mr.
Faunce -married (second) in 1874 in Smith-
field, R. I., Elizabeth Brown, daughter of
Waterman Brown, of that town. No children
have been born of this marriage.
(VIII) Charles Merrick Faunce, son of
Walter Hamlet and Arabella (Ryder), was born
in Kingston, Aug. 2, 1868. He graduated from
the high school there, after which he entered
Exeter Academy, at Exeter, where he prepared
for college. He graduated from Harvard Uni-
versity in 1892, with the degree of A. B., and
then became an instructor in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Boston, where he re-
mained for three years. Failing health com-
pelled him to give up his profession, and he
went West, but all in vain. He returned home,
and died July 16, 1899. He was unmarried.
He was a young man of unusual ability and
promise, and his pleasant manners and sterling
character won him many friends who sincerely
mourned his taking away when seemingly on
the very threshold of a life of true usefulness.
Washbdkn. (I) John Washburn, of Kings-
ton, married Lydia Billington, and their
children were : John, born in 1699 ; Ichabod,
born in 1701; Mercy, born in 1702; Elisha,
born in U03; Ephraim, born in 1705; Barna-
bas, born in 1707; Jabez, born in 1708;
Ebenezer, born iji 1709; and Thankful, born in
1715. There was an earlier John Washburn,
of Duxbury, 1632, who, with his two sons, John
and Philip, was included with those able to
bear arms in the Colony in 1643, and his name
is also among the first freemen of Duxbury.
He and his son John were original proprietors
of Bridgewater, and they and Philip became
residents and settlers there in South Bridge-
water as early as 1665. The name was per-
petuated through the son John. Mitchell sup-
posed that all of the name in the Bridgewater
part of the country descended from John of
Duxbury. Davis gives no evidence of any con-
nection between the John of Duxbury and John
of Kingston. Savage and Pope make no men-
tion of John Washburn of Kingston.
(II) John Washburn (2), of Kingston, son
of John, of Kingston, married Abigail Johnson,
and their children were: John, born in 1730;
Abigail, born in 1732, who married Abner
Sylvester; Mary, born in 1734; Mercy, born
in 1736; Seth, born in 1738; Philip, bom in
1739 ; and Thankful, born in 1742.
(III) Seth Washburn, son of John (2), born
in 1738, in Kingston, married in 1765 Fear
Howard, and their children were: Fear, who
married John Foster ; Persis, who married John
Turner; Abigail, who married Zenas Churchill;
Seth; and Ichabod, who married Ann Fuller,
of Plymouth.
(IV) Seth Washburn, son of Seth and Fear
(Howard), born in 1769, married in 1792 Sarah
Adams, and had children; Marcia, born in
1793, who married Nathaniel Faunce ; Sally,
born in 1796, who married Solomon Davie;
Christiana Drew, born in 1799, who married
Nahum Bailey; Hannah, who married Sewall
Rice, of Worcester, Mass. ; Judith, who married
Francis Johnson ; and Amelia.
(V) Amelia Washburn, daughter of Seth and
Sarah (Adams), born Jan. 7, 1807, married
Charles Cook Faunce, and they became the
parents of Walter Hamlet Faunce.
Brown. Mrs. Elizabeth (Brown) Faunce be-
longs to one of the oldest and most prominent
families in Rhode Island history. The Browns
have been closely and conspicuously identified
with the history of Providence since the coming
of Chad Brown in 1638, a leader in the Colony,
one of the committee to formulate the first
written form of government for the town, and
the first settled pastor of the Baptist Church.
James and Obadiah Brown, of the fourth gen-
eration, were the founders of the extensive com-
mercial house of the Browns, which in the suc-
ceeding generations was conducted by the four
Brown Brothers — Nicholas, Moses, John and
Joseph of commercial note and wealth. In the
succeeding generation came Nicholas Brown
(2), an eminent merchant and philanthropist,
whose munificent gifts made possible the great
Brown University of to-day, as well as some of
the great public institutions of Providence, and
from whom the imiversity derived its name.
(I) Chad Brown, accompanied by his wife
Elizabeth, son John, then eight years of age,
and perhaps his younger sons, emigrated from
England in the ship "Martin," which arrived
at Boston, Mass., in July, 1638. He soon re-
moved to Providence, where he became at once
a leader in the Colony and one of the most
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valued citizens. In 1640 he was one of a com-
mittee who reported to Providence Colony the
first written form of government, which was
adopted and continued in force until 1644,
when Eoger Williams returned from England
with the first charter. In 1642 Chad Brown
was ordained as the first settled pastor of the
Baptist Church. His wife was Elizabeth, and
their children were: John, James, Jeremiah,
Judah and Daniel.
(II) John Brown, born in 1630, died about
1706. He married Mary, daughter of Rev.
Obadiah and Catherine Holmes, of Newport,
R. I., and resided in Providence, at the north
end, in a house near the one afterward occupied
by his son. Elder James, near the junction of
North Main and Randall streets. Like his
father he was a surveyor as well as a Baptist
elder. He served in various important capac-
ities, was moderator, member of the town
council, deputy in the Legislature, etc. His
children were: Sarah, James, John, Obadiah,
Martha, Mary and Deborah.
(III) James Brown, born in 1666, died Oct.
28, 1732. He married Dec. 17, 1691, Mary,
born Dec. 17, 1671, daughter of Andrew and
Mary (Tew) Harris. She died Aug. 18, 1736.
Mr. Brown served almost continuously as a
member of the town council from 1705 to 1725,
and was town treasurer from 1714 to 1718. He
was pastor or elder of the First Baptist Church,
succeeding Rev. Ebenezer Jenckes, and he re-
mained pastor until his death, in 1732. His
children were: John, James, Joseph, Martha,
Andrew (born Sept. 20, 1706), Mary, Anna,
Obadiah, Jeremiah and Elisha.
(IV) Joseph Brown, son of James, born
May 5, 1701, died May 8, 1778. He was a
farmer by occupation, and resided in North
Providence. He married (first) Martha Field,
daughter of William, of Field's Point ; she died
April 19, 1736, aged twenty-six years, leaving
one son, Gideon, born in 1726, who married
Ruth Rutenberg, daughter of David and
Hannah (Jenks) Rutenberg. Joseph Brown
married (second) Abigail Brown, who died
May 23, 1784, in her seventy-third year. Their
children were: Elisha, Andrew and Joseph.
(V) Elisha Brown, son of Joseph, of North
Providence, married Waite Waterman, of Crans-
ton, R. L, daughter of Thomas Waterman.
"Their children were: Welcome, ))orn May 12,
1777; Waterman, Jan. 7, 1779; Elizabeth, Aug.
23, 1780; Lydia, March 5, 1782; Philena, Sept.
19, 1784; Susanna, Nov. 3; 1787; Waite, March
13, 1789; and Catherine, Oct. 3, 1791.
(VI) Waterman Brown, son of Elisha, born
Jan. 7, 1779, married Hannah Congdon, and
they had children, Salmon, Waterman, Welcome
and Elisha.
(VII) Waterman Brown (2), son of Water-
man, married Eliza A. Highland, and their
daughter, Elizabeth, born in Smithfield, R. I.,
was engaged as a school teacher. In 1874 she
married Walter Hamlet Faunce, of Kingston,
Massachusetts.
CHARLES NELSON ATWOOD, the well
known box and lumber manufacturer of Rock,
Middleboro, Mass., wa,s born June 22, 1844,
son of Ichabod F. and Abigail T. (Thomas)
Atwood.
The Atwood family was one of some conse-
quence in Great Britain, no less than sixteen
families of the name having their arms entered
in the Herald's College. On each side of the
Atlantic it has been a prolific family. One
Mr. John Atwood, "gent.," from London, came
to Plymouth and was a freeman of 1636; was
assistant in 1638. He died in 1644, leaving,
says Davis, no issue ; and who further says that
the various branches of the Atwood family are
descended from (I) John Wood, of Plymouth,
1643. He was called Wood, alias Atwood. He
married Sarah, daughter of Richard Masterson,
and their children were: John, born in 1649;
Nathaniel, born in 1651; Isaac, born in 1653;
Mary, who married (first) Rev. John Holmes,
of Duxbury, and (second) Maj. William Brad-
ford; Sarah, who married John Fallowell;
Abigail, who married Samuel Leonard; Mercy;
Elizabeth; and Hannah, who married Richard
Cooper.
(II) Deacon Nathaniel Atwood, son of
John, bom Feb. 25, 1651-52, married Mary,
daughter of Jonathan Morey, and their chil-
dren were: John, born May 1, 1684; Eliz-
abeth, born April 24, 1687; Joanna, born Feb.
27, 1689 ; Mary, born April 26, 1691 ; Nathan-
iel, born Oct. 3, 1693; Isaac, born Dec. 29,
1695; Barnabas, born Jan. 1, 1697-98; and
Joanna (2), born June 8, 1700. The father
was a deacon of the church. He died Dec. 17,
1724, in Plympton, in his seventy-fourth year.
(III) Lieut. Nathaniel Atwood (3), son of
Nathaniel, born Oct. 3, 1693, married (first)
Mary, daughter of Francis Adams, and (sec-
ond) Oct. 7, 1747, Mrs. Abigail Lucas. Mr.
Atwood served as lieutenant in the military
company of the town. He lived in that part
of Plymouth which became Plympton. His
children were : Mary, born in 1723, who mar-
ried Benjamin Shaw; Natha'niel, born in 1725;
Francis, born in 1728 (bom to the first mar-
riage) ; Sarah, who married Joseph Barrows;
Mercy, who married Joseph Warren; Ebenezer,
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born in 1735; Kezjah, bom in 1737; William,
born in 1740; Joseph, born in 1741; and
Ichabod, born in 1744 (by the second mar-
riage).
(IV) Ichabod Atwood, son of Lieut. Na-
thaniel, born in 1744, in that part of Plympton
which became Carver, Mass., married Hannah,
born in 1751, daughter of Capt. Nathaniel and
Hannah (Perkins) Shaw, of Plympton. Twelve
children were born to them, all of whom lived
to attain middle life, among them being a son
Nathaniel, born April 28, 1782. The father
was a farmer and also a dealer in lumber, wood
and charcoal. The mother's father, Capt.
Nathaniel Shaw, was a Patriot of the Revolu-
tion, commanding a company in that mem-
orable conflict.
(V) Nathaniel Atwood (3), son of Ichabod,
born April 28, 1782, in Middleboro, Mass.,
married Zilpha, born in 1782, daughter of
Francis and Mary (Shaw) ShurtlefE, of
Plympton and Carver, Mass., and of their chil-
dren the following reached mature years:
'Flora, who married Elijah Hackett; Ichabod
F., of Middleboro, Mass.; and Eeuel, Gardiner
and Polly died young. Natlianiel Atwood in-
herited the homestead, and like his father
before him was occupied in farming and dealt
in lumber, wood and charcoal.
(VI) Ichabod F. Atwood, son of Nathaniel
(3), was born in Fall Brook, Middleboro,
March 13, 1820. He attended the district
school and Peirce Academy, and at about the
age of fifteen began to teach. For some thirty
years he followed this profession, and with the
exception of a single year confined his efforts
to Plymouth county. For several years he was
connected with the mills at Fall Brook and
Eock, making his home in the latter town after
1866. In politics he was a Eepublican, and
filled many important local offices, being justice
of the peace over forty-five years, surveyor
forty years, selectman and overseer of the poor
three years, member of the school committee
several years, and auditor and assessor. He
was often called upon to administer estates.
In his religious belief he was a Methodist. In
1841 he married Abigail T. Thomas, daughter
of Harvey C. and Hannah C. (Atwood)
Thomas, and they had four children: Emery
F., Charles Nelson, Harvey N. and Hannah
Z. Mr. Atwood died at. his home in Rock in
1901, aged eighty-one years, and was buried
in the Atwood lot_in the Fall Brook cemetery,
on the same farni where he was born. His
wife died in 1906, aged eighty-four years, and
was buried in the same cemetery.
(VII) Charles Nelson Atwood, son of Ich-
abod F., born June 22, 1844, grew to manhood
on the farm, and what education he obtained
was received in the public schools of Middle-
boro. He worked on the home place and in
the mill until 1879, when he took charge of
the mill and box manufacturing plant, where
he has continued for the past thirty-two years
with great success. He has made extensive
improvements in the plant, and in 1904 he
admitted his son Levi 0. into partnership with
him, the firm name being changed to C. N.
Atwood & Son. Close attention to business,
untiring energy and upright principles have
marked Mr. Atwood's business career, and he
is reaping his reward not alone in worldly
goods but in the respect of his associates. He
built a modern home at Eock, and there he
has since lived in comfort.
Mr. Atwood is a man of progressive ideas
and public spirit. He has taken a leading,
part in public affairs, and is at present filling
the office of selectman, to which he was elected
in 1908. In politics he is a stanch Eepublican,
and in religious faith a Congregationalist, be-
ing at the present time treasurer of the Con-
gregational Society of Eock, which office he has
held for a number of years. For several years
he has been a trustee of the Young Men's
Christian Association. He is also a trustee of
the Middleboro Savings Bank, and of the Co-
operative Bank, of Middleboro. He is a lover
of outdoor life, and finds great enjoyment in
automobiling. Mr. and Mrs. Atwood have
traveled extensively in this country as well as
in Europe; they have made several trips to
California and Mexico.
On Oct. 23, 1866, Mr. Atwood married
(first) Eozilla A. Barrows, daughter of Wil-
liam Orville and Amanda N. (Wood) Barrows.
She died Nov. 22, 1874, in the twenty-ninth
year of her age, and was buried in the ceme-
tery at Eock. To this union were born: (1)
Alton Barrows, born Sept. 20, 1868, is men-
tioned below. (2) Levi Orville, born May 4,
1870, is the junior member of the firm of C.
N. Atwood & Son. He is also a director of
the Middleboro National Bank, and a trustee
of the Cooperative Bank; and president of the
Business Men's Club and of the Young Men's
Christian Association, of Middleboro. On Sept.
27, 1892, he married (first) Eva G. Tinkham,
and his second marriage was to Gertrude Col-
lier. He has three children, two by the first
marriage, Eose Anita, bom Oct. 24, 1897, and
Marian Nelson, born May 18, 1899; and one
by the second, Grace Elizabeth, born Aug. 27,
1908.
Mr. Charles N. Atwood married (second)
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Oct. 17, 1876, Sarah A. Gibbs, daughter of
Francis Bradford and Tirzah Swift (Morse)
Gibbs, of Middleboro, a descendant of one of
the oldest families of Barnstable county, and
as well a descendant of Revolutionary stock
through the Morse family. By this union
there is one son, Ichabod F., born Feb. 28,
1883, who graduated from the Massachusetts
School of Technology in 1903, and is now
engaged in box manufacturing in Chelsea with
his brother; he is unmarried.
(VIII) Alton Baeeows Atwood, eldest
son of Charles N. and Rozilla (Barrows)
Atwood, was born at Rock, town of Middleboro,
Sept. 20, 1868. He attended the public and
high schools of Middleboro, graduating from
the latter in 1885. He then began to learn
the boxmaking business in his father's factory
at Rock, where he continued until 1893, be-
coming familiar with all branches of the bus-
iness. In the latter year he went to Chelsea,
Mass., and there formed a partnership with H.
P. McManus, under the firm name of Atwood
& McManus, the father, Charles N. Atwood,
owning a third interest in the business. Here
a large plant was built, and the manufacture
of wooden boxes and packing cases was begun
on June 1, 1893, since which time they have
been kept busy with the increasing demand for
the product, now having one of the largest
factories of the kind in New England. On
Sept. 21, 1908, the plant was destroyed by
fire, after having escaped the great Chelsea fire
of but a few months before, and they met with
a heavy loss. However, they were not .dismayed,
and in place of the first structure they erected
fine brick buildings, fully equipped with up-to-
date machinery, which was put into operation
June 1, 1909. The firm owns timber tracts in
many parts of New England, from which the
supply of lumber is obtained, and also has
several sawmills in operation. Mr. Atwood is
a man of progressive ideas, and is farsighted
in his investments. He gives his entire time
and attention to the business he knows so thor-
oughly, and his genial personality has made
him friends with the trade and with his em-
ployees as well. In politics he is a stanch
Republican, but he takes no active part in
party work. Fraternally he is a member of
Robert Lash Lodge, A. P. & A. M., of Chel-
sea. He is also identified with the financial
institutions of Chelsea, being vice president of
the Chelsea Trust Company, and a trustee of
the County Savings Bank. Mr. Atwood is a
member of the First Congregational Church of
Chelsea, and has served as treasurer of the
church and as a member of the prudential
committee; he was also chairman of the build-
ing committee which had charge of the erection
of the present church edifice, which was built
in 1905-06.
In January, 1895, Mr. Atwood married
Maud L. Webster, of Chelsea, who died Sept.
7, 1900. On April 17, 1907, he married (sec-
ond) Mabel E. Coan, of Everett, and they have
one child, Charles Nelson, 2d, bom May
1, 1909.
Barrows. The Barrows family, to which
the late Mrs. Charles N. Atwood belonged, was
early settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
John Barrus (or Barrows, etc.), born in 1609,
in England, at the age of twenty-eight, left
Yarmouth, England, his wife Anne accompany-
ing him, and came to America, settling at
Salem, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He
and his wife received grants of land in Salem
in 1637, and were inhabitants of that town for
twenty-eight years, and all their children were
born there. They removed to Plymouth before
1665, and John, the immigrant, died there in
1692. His will shows that he left a second
wife, younger than himself, and four sons:
Robert; John; Benajah, who lived in Attle-
boro; and Ebenezer, who lived in Cumberland,
R. I.; and two daughters, Mary and Deborah.
Robert Barrows, born in Salem, Massachu-
setts Bay Colony, removed with his father to
Plymouth. He had by his first wife, Ruth
(Bonum), four children: John, born in 1667,
who died in Plymouth in 1720; George, born
in 1670; Samuel, who died in Middleboro in
1755; and Mehetabel, who married Adam
Wright. He married (second) Lydia Dunham
and had children : Robert, born in 1689, who
died in Mansfield, Conn., in 1779; Thankful,
born in 1692, who married Isaac King; Elisha,
who died in 1767 in Rochester, Mass. ; Thomas,
who died in Mansfield in 1779; Lydia, who
married Thomas Branch; and Capt. George.
Samuel Barrows, son of Robert, was bom in
1672. He settled in Middleboro, and in about
1700 built a garrison house which is still
standing and known as the old Barrows house.
He was elected deacon of the First Church
in 1725. He married (first) Mercy Coombs,
who died in 1718, and (second) Joanna Smith.
He died Dec. 30, 1755, aged eighty-three years.
There, too, was a Samuel Barrows, who is
judged by Weston, in his work on Middleboro,
Mass., to be a son of the immigrant settler
John Barrows, who was an early settler of
Middleboro, and before the breaking out of
King Philip's war, 1675, had built a dam
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across the Nemasket river, some fifty rods above
the present Star Mills, and erected a gristmill,
in which he worked. On the morning of the
attack upon the town, after the Indians had
been shot, he saw a band approacliing the mill,
and fled to the fort uninjured. The records of
the First Church of Middleboro show that he
had acquired a share in the Twenty-six Men's
Purchase before the breaking out of the war.
This much concerning the early history of the
Middleboro Barrows family, but in the absence
of earlier vital records of the especial branch
of the Barrows family treated below the con-
nection between the earlier and later family
is rendered impracticable to make.
Benjamin Barrows lived in Middleboro and
was the father of Nathaniel Barrows, who
married Hannah Jones.
Nathaniel Barrows, son of Benjamin, was
bom in Middleboro. To him and his wife
Hannah Jones were born children as follows:
Lois, born May 28, 1767; Eunice, Oct. 13,
1769 (died Aug. 22, 1791); Abisha, Jan. 3,
1772; Nathaniel, March 24, 1774; Abigail,
July 31, 1776; Josiah, July 25, 1778; Asa,
Feb. 25, 1781 ; Freeman, March 22, 1783 ; Nel-
son, Sept. 23, 1786; and Stillman, Sept. 3,
1789. The father of these children died Nov.
15, 1803, in Middleboro, aged sixty-two years.
Asa Barrows, son of Nathaniel, was born in
Middleboro Feb. 25, 1781. He married Sarah
Cobb, and they had a son, William Orville.
William Orville Barrows, son of Asa, mar-
ried in Middleboro, Feb. 18, 1826, Amanda N.
Wood, daughter of Noah and Nancy (Norton)
Wood, and their children were : Levi Marshall,
born May 13, 1828, died Oct. 19, 1828 ; Nancy
N., born Dec. 26, 1829, died Dec. 4, 1866;
Deborah Shaw, born Feb. 26, 1832, married
June 1, 1850, Josiah B. Thomas, and resides
at Peabody, Mass. ; Rozilla Amanda, born June
23, 1846, married Oct. 23, 1866, Charles N.
Atwood, and died Nov. 22, 1874.
HATHAWAY. (I) Nicholas Hathaway
was one among a company of men migrating
from some of the older towns who went to re-
side within the borders of Taunton, and were
designated as "first settlers," a term which has
adhered and served to distinguish them from
the first purchasers. Mr. Hathaway had so-
journed for a time at Boston and purchased
lands in that vicinity before going to Taunton;
land was granted to him at Mount Woollystone
in February, 1639, he being then designated of
Monaticott. It seems that in that year, or
1640, he went to Taunton, where he became an
extensive land owner. He had a son John, and
probably Joseph and Jacob Hathaway, of Taun-
ton, were also his sons.
(II) John Hathaway, born in 1629, was at
Taunton with his father and the time of their
going there is determined by a deposition in
which John makes the declaration that his
knowledge of the boundaries and occupation of
certain portions of the town extended as far
back as 1639 and 1640. His name appears with
those who in 1657 had taken the oath of fidelity.
In 1658 he purchased with two associates four
hundred acres of "meadow and upland" in that
part of Taunton which afterward became in-
corporated as the town of Berkley. In 1659,
when a division of land was made, John Hath-
away was recorded as having seven heads in
his family and received a share in proportion
to that number. He was made a freeman in
1670. In 1671 he purchased the eighteenth
lot of the Freetown lands and thereupon estab-
lished his eldest son, John Hathaway, Jr. In
1676 he was chosen constable, then an office
of great responsibility and power. He was
elected deputy in 1680 and served five successive
years; and in 1681 he was chosen one of the
selectmen of the town. He was again constable
in 1690, when engaged in reorganizing the
military companies, in one of which he served
as ensign. He was again elected deputy to the
General Court at Plymouth in 1691. In 1695
a company of well-known citizens, with John
Hathaway, Sr., of the number, set up a bloom-
ery or forge on Stony brook, which was after-
ward known as the Leonard Iron Works of
Norton. He was a representative to the Massa-
chusetts General Court in 1696 and 1697. Mr.
Hathaway was twice married ; the Christian
name of his first wife, the mother of his chil-
dren, was Martha, and that of the second Ruth.
Both he and his wife Ruth died in 1705, she
in September of that year. His home was in
that part of Berkley known as "The Farms."
Mr. Hathaways children were : John, born in
1650; Abraham, born in 1652; Isaac, born in
1655; Ephraim, born in 1661; Abigail, and
Rebecca. Of these, Abraham married Rebecca
Wilbore and settled in Berkley, and died in
1725. Isaac married Mary Pitts, settled in
Berkley, and died in 1722. Ephraim married
and settled in Dighton, and died in 1718.
Rebecca married Jared Talbot, theirs being the
first marriage recorded in the town of Dighton.
(III) John Hathaway (2), born in' 1650,
married Hannah, daughter of James Burt, and
settled in Freetown, where he died in 1730. As
stated, his father had installed him upon the
lot of the Freetown lands he purchased in 1671.
He became one of the leading citizens there.
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(IV) Isaac Hathaway, son of John (2), set-
tled in Berkley, Mass., where he died. He is
said to have inherited a part of the homestead
of his father, and also the iron forge which
was established by his father, the first forge
in the town ; he also owned a mill, and, as may
be judged, was a man of snap and enterprise.
On Feb. 22, 1711, he married Sarah Makepeace,
and they had children born as follows: Sarah,
Nov. 14, 1712; Anna, Dec. 7, 1714; Eebecea,
March 1, 1716; Abijah, March 21, 1719;
Thomas, March 23, 1721; Nicholas, April 1,
1723; and Peleg. Of these, Nicholas inherited
a part of the original purchase — the eighteenth
lot of the Freetown lands — made by his great-
grandfather John Hathaway. On Sept. 8, 1744,
he married Rebecca Merrick, and his children
were : Stephen, Elkanah, Isaac, Sarah, Dighton
and Rebecca.
(V) Thomas Hathaway, son of Isaac and
Sarah (Makepeace) Hathaway, bom in Free-
town March 23, 1721, married (first) Jerusha
Hathaway. Children: Samuel and Thomas
(baptized Oct. 16, 1759). By his second wife,
Abigail Babbitt, he also had two children,
Abner and Abbey, twins.
(VI) Samuel Hathaway, son of Thomas and
Jerusha (Hathaway) Hathaway^ baptized Oct.
16, 1759, married Mary Evans, of Freetown.
Children: Samuel, born Aug. 31, 1781, who
married Hannah Cook; Evans, born March 7,
1783; Hannah, born April 26, 1785; Jerusha,
born March 17, 1787; Thomas, born Jan. 18,
1789; Peleg, born Aug. 2, 1791; Isaac, born
Aug. 21, 1794; Rosamond, born Aug. 15, 1796
(died unmarried) ; Lucy, who married Eben
Delano, of Fairhaven; Polly; and Sally, who
died unmarried.
(VII) Samuel Hathaway (2), son of
Samuel and Mary (Evans) Hathaway, born
Aug. 31, 1781, married Hannah Cook, who was
born March 6, 1773, and they had children as
follows: Samuel, born Oct. 31, 1807; Evans,
who died at sea June 10, 1842, at the age of
twenty-five years; Hannah, who married Alan-
son Sweet and lived in Cumberland, R. I.; and
Mary, who died unmarried Feb. 5, 1842, aged
thirty-two.
(VIII) Samuel Hathaway (3), son of
Samuel (2) and Hannah (Cook) Hathaway,
was born Oct. 31, 1807, in Freetown, Mass.
His father dying, the mother and her four
children removed to Fall River in 1817, when
Samuel was ten years of age. He being the
eldest child circumstances made it necessary
for him to assist in the support of the family,
and he had but meager school advantages. He
began employment in 1824 at Robeson's Print
Works and in time learned the art of color
mixing and became overseer of the color mixing
department of the works. He retained this
position for a number of years, until he became
manager, which position he retained until the
concern changed hands, in 1848, Andrew Robe-
son, the principal proprietor, then retiring
from business. This change in ownership of
the business made one in the life of Mr. Hatha-
way, who then engaged in farming near the
then village, as it were, of Fall River, an occu-
pation he practically continued in through the
remainder of his life.
Mr. Hathaway developed into one of the
foremost citizens of his day in Fall River.
Possessing a rugged, independent character, he
was always bold in his denunciation of what
he considered shams and frauds and earnest
in the defense of what he thought was just and
true. He was largely interested in the manu-
facturing interests of Fall River, having been
a prime mover in organizing the Robeson Mills,
and an active participant in the founding of
the Stafford and Davol Mills. He was a director
of them all and also of the Watuppa and Granite
Mills from their organization until the time
of his death, and was president of the Robeson
Mills. He was also a director of the Manufac-
turers' Gas Company. He was active in the
organization of the Citizens' Savings Bank of
Fall River in 1851, and from the start until
his death was a member of the bank's board
of investment. He assisted in organizing, ill
1854, the Pocasset Bank, of which from the
start on through his life he was a director, and
its president during the last decade or more of
his life. As a banker he was noted for his
sound judgment, strict integrity and faithful
performance of all the trusts reposed in him.
Mr. Hathaway had little or no taste for
politics and political preferment, yet he ever
had a great interest in the public welfare and
performed his duty in citizenship in the way of
earnest support of correct principles and the
putting of the most suitable men into oflSce.
He was for one year a member of the board
of aldermen, but declined a reelection at the
expiration of his term of office. He was asked
a number of times to become a candidate for
the office of mayor, but as often declined. Per-
haps no one in Fall River of his day enjoyed
the confidence of the people of the city to a
greater extent than Mr. Hathaway. His judg-
ment was valued by his associates in the many
official relations he sustained. He was an
earnest friend of temperance and active in
every effort for the moral welfare of the city.
He was a friend to the widow and the orphan.
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His life was well lived and the memory of its
uprightness and of his good deeds has lived
after him.
On March 3, 1832, Mr. Hathaway was mar-
ried to Abby, born Aug. 10, 1811, in Fall Eiver,
daughter of Joseph and Rhoda (Borden) War-
ren. Ten children blessed the marriage, those
who survived the father being: Abbie (born
Oct. 7, 1833, died Oct. 20, 1895), wife of
Eleazer Waldron, of Fall Eiver; Edward E.
(born Oct. 14, 1836), who died May 9, 1911;
Marion A. (born May 31, 1841), wife of Henry
Frye, of Providence, E. I.; Samuel W. (born
Aug. 3, 1843) ; and Clarence M. (born April
38, 1855).
Mr. Hathaway died at his home in Fall
Biver, Mass., April 4, 1873, when in the sixty-
sixth year of his age; Mrs. Hathaway died
Feb. 10, 1869.
(IX) Edwakd E. Hathaway, son of Samuel
and Abby (Warren) Hathaway, was born in
Fall Eiver Oct. 14, 1836, and after attending
the public schools there went to Middleboro
Academy to finish his education. His father
had been one of the promoters of the Citizens'
Savings Bank when it was organized in 1851
as the Savings Bank in Tiverton, and on June
12, 1854, Edward E. Hathaway was elected
assistant treasurer of the institution. The
Pocasset Bank of Tiverton (later the Pocasset
National Bank of Fall Eiver) began operations
the following month, in the same office, and
he also became a clerk of that. He continued
in the banking business throughout his life.
In 1862 William H. Brackett, the first treasurer
of the Savings Bank and the first cashier of
the Pocasset Bank, resigned to become cashier
of the Washington Bank of Boston, and Mr.
Hathaway succeeded him in both positions, to
which he was elected Dec. 9th of that year. He
continued as cashier of the Pocasset Bank until
1903, when it united with the Massasoit Na-
tional and the National Union Banks to form
the present Massasoit Pocasset National Bank,
of which he became vice president and director.
He was one of the committee which had
cliarge of the erection of its new building. He
continued as treasurer of the Savings Bank
until his death, having held that position al-
most forty years. On April 15, 1873, he suc-
ceeded his father as director of the Pocasset
National Bank, and became a trustee of the
Savings Bank in 1900.
. When Mr. Hathaway first became associated
with the Savings Bank it was but a small insti-
tution, located in the brick building still stand-
ing on the northeast corner of South Main and
Eodman streets, then in Ehode Island, the Fall
Eiver Union Bank building. The change in
the boundary line between Massachusetts and
Ehode Island, in March, 1862, brought the bank
within Massachusetts territory, and it assumed
its present title of Citizens' Savings Bank and
removed to an office on the northwest corner
of the first floor of the City Hall, where it re-
mained until 1873, when, with the Pocasset
Bank, with which it had been associated from
the time the latter was formed, it occupied the
present quarters at the corner of Main and
Bedford streets, the Savings Bank purchasing
same from the Pocasset when the latter went
out of business. Under Mr. Hathaway's
direction the Citizens' Bank grew until it now
has over eight thousand depositors, and deposits
of more than five million dollars.
In addition to his long connection with local
banking interests Mr. Hathaway was for many
years identified with the cotton manufacturing
industry in Fall Eiver, was one of the first board •
of directors of the Osborn Mills, of which he
continued to be a director up to the time of
his death, and was president of three corpora-
tions, the Chace Mills (from 1886), the Granite
Mills (from 1904) and the Stafford Mills (for
a shorter period).
In all his relations Mr. Hathaway displayed
marked faithfulness to duty and devotion to
the interests in his charge. His only public
office was that of sinking fund commissioner,
which he held continuously from 1879 until his
death. Though in poor health for some years,
and perceptibly worse during his last few
months, he attended to his business affairs to
the very end, dying May 9, 1911, at the age of
seventy-four years. "He was of a reserved and
retiring nature, though always courteous with
all who came in contact with him, always well
liked by all who were privileged to know him
at all well. His associates in business held him
in very high regard, and so did all who worked
under him. In his position as one of its lead-
ing bankers he had much to do with the ad-
vancement of the city."
On March 16, 1869, Mr. Hathaway married
Ella B. Coggeshall, daughter of Capt. Frederick
B. Coggeshall, and they had one child, Mary,
born in 1872, who died at the age of twelve
years. Mrs. Hathaway died Jan. 2, 1903. Mr.
Hathaway was a member of no church or so-
ciety, but attended the Central Congregational
Church.
(IX) Samuel West Hathaway, son of
Samuel and Abby (Warren) Hathaway, was
born in Fall Eiver, Mass., Aug. 3, 1843. He
received his educational training in the public
schools of Fall Eiver, and for three years in
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early life followed the trade of machinist.
Working first at the Watuppa Mill as a
mechanic, he finally became superintendent, and
in 1871 became the superintendent of the
Stafford Mill, which position he held for thirty-
two years, retiring in 1903. He is the oldest
director of the Stafford Mill and is a member
of the board of investment of the Citizens' Sav-
ings Bank of Fall Eiver. Mr. Hathaway mar-
ried Sept. 1, 1864, Sarah D. Eddy, daughter
of Jervis W. Eddy, of Somerset, and to them
were born four children, viz. : Samuel E.,
Nov. 3, 1865, is mentioned below ; Abby Warren,
March 11, 1873, married David T. Wilcox and
had a son, Samuel Edward H. ; Danforth Hor-
ton, March 17, 1881, married Anna Osborn
Swift, and has Samuel W. and Orson (he is
treasurer of the Pilgrim Mill of Fall River,
and of the Barrowsville Bleachery) ; and Joseph
H., July 2, 1884, treasurer of Wilcox & Hatha-
way, cloth brokers in Fall Eiver.
(X) Samdel E. Hathaway, late superin-
tendent of the Fall Biver Iron Works Company,
was born Nov. 3, 1865, son of Samuel W. Hath-
away. He was educated in the public and high
schools of Fall Eiver, and then started out at
the age of nineteen, to learn practical manu-
facturing at the Stafford Mill, where he finally
became an overseer in the card room. In July,
1889, at the age of twenty-four years, he was
selected bv M. C. D. Borden for superintendent
of the Iron Works Mills, and he superin-
tended the construction of No. 1 Mill and all
of those following, at the same time buying
all the cotton and supplies for the entire plant
and acting as the superintendent of the several
mills. As a manufacturer he was very success-
ful, his energy and untiring labor contributing
largely to the success of the Iron Works Com-
pany. Mr. Hathaway was a thirty-second-de-
gree Mason, a past master of King Philip
Lodge, and a past commander of Godfrey de
Bouillon Commandery. A fine musician, he
weekly entertained a gathering of some of his
musical friends at his home, and took great en-
joyment in it.
On Feb. 15, 1887, Mr. Hathaway married
Maud Clifton, daughter of Theodore W.
Borden, and granddaughter of Cook Borden.
Their children were : Alice Borden, born Sept.
5, 1893, who graduated from the Fall River
High School in 1910 and then attended Lasell
Seminary; and Theodore Borden, born Aug.
22, 1896.
Mr. Hathaway had not been in good health
for a number of years before his death, and
had taken several trips abroad in the hope of
regaining his strength, but in spite of all that
medical skill could do for him he closed his life
work on the afternoon of Nov. 16, 1910. On
the day of the funeral the entire plant of the
Iron Works Company was closed as a tribute
of respect.
(IX) Clarence M. Hathaway, son of
Samuel, born April 28, 1855, in Tiverton (now
a part of Fall Eiver), was educated in the
public schools of Fall River, graduating from
the high school in 1875. His first business
employment was as a clerk in the cotton mill
now known as the Fall River Print Works.
From there he changed to the Robeson Mills,
as bookkeeper under Linden Cook, the treasurer
of the works at that time, and so well ,did he
apply and adapt himself to the business that
upon the death of Mr. Cook he succeeded him
in the treasurership. He was retained in that
position until the reorganization of the Eobeson
Mills, in 1897, when, upon the organization of
the selling committee for the mills, he became
bookkeeper. When that arrangement was aban-
doned, in 1901, Mr. Hathaway became the sec-
retary of the Cotton Manufacturers' Association,
a position he still fills. He has given all his
time and energy to business, taking no part at
any time in public matters. His standing
among his business associates, for both ability
and unquestionable uprightness of character, is
of the highest.
On Nov. 12, 1889, Mr. Hathaway married
Alice R. Taber, daughter of Capt. Jacob and
Hannah (Blackmer) Taber, of New Bedford.
They have no children. Mr. Hathaway is a
member of the Unitarian Church at Fall River.
Mr. Hathaways maternal lineage, in the
Warren line, is traced back in America to
bichard Warren, of the "Mayflower," 1620,
from whom he is a descendant in the ninth
generation. In the Old World, however, the
line is traced back to the ninth century. We
have the following account of this family:
In the ninth or tenth century a Danish
knight and wife had children: Gunnora, who
married Richard (I), Duke of Normandy;
Herfastes, who married Walter de H. Martine ;
and four other daughters. About the year 900
King Charles of France, called the "Simple,"
conferred on Rollo (or Rolf) the Duchy after-
ward called Normandy. Rollo (or Rolf) was
a Dane and was one of the celebrated Normans
(a Northman) in the invasion of that country
by the Danish so-called "sea robbers," or sea
kings. Rollo (or Rolf) while living in and
holding that country married Poppa, a daugh-
ter of Bevangarius, Count of Bayeaux. Rollo
(or Rolf) died in 931. Rollo (first Duke of
Normandy) and Poppa had children : William,
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second Duke of Normandy, called Longsword;
and Robert, fifth Count of Corbiel.
William, second Duke of Normandy, married
Adela, daughter of Hubert, Count of Senlis.
William was slain in 948. His wife Adela died
in 960. They had children: Richard (I),
called the "Fearless," and Walter de H. Martine.
Richard the Fearless married Gunnora, daugh-
ter of a Danish knight, as previously recorded,
and had children: Richard (II), surnamed
the "Good," and Emma, who married Ethelred
(II), of England. Richard (II) was father
of Richard (III) and Robert the "Magnificent."
Robert was the father of William the Conqueror,
who was born out of wedlock, his mother being
Aletta (or Herlava), the daughter of a tanner.
Walter de H. Martine, second son of Wil-
liam (second Duke of Normandy), married
Herfastes, daughter of a Danish knight, and
their son was William de Warrenne, first Earl
of Warrenne in Normandy. The latter married
a daughter of Ralph de Forta, and their son,
William de Warrenne, was by inheritance sec-
ond Earl of Warrenne in Normandy, but by
act of William the Conqueror (whose daughter
Gundreda he married) was created first Earl
of Warren and Surrey in England. The first
Warren known on English soil was William,
first Earl of Warren and Surrey, son of Wil-
liam de Warrenne, first Earl of Warrenne in
Normandy. He accompanied William the
Conqueror to England, took an important part
in the battle of Hastings, fought Oct. 14, 1066,
and was so highly esteemed by the Conqueror
that the latter gave him lands in almost every
county in England and also conferred on him
the Earldom of Surrey. Settling in England,
he selected for his residence the village of
Lewes, in the County of Sussex. (He is No. 13
in the genealogy.)
He married Gundreda, daughter of William
the Conqueror, and their children were William
(second Earl of Warren and Surrey) and four
more children.
William, second Earl of Warren and Surrey,
was amono those who took part with Robert,
Duke of Normand^', and when the latter landed
at Portsmouth in the autumn of 1101 William
■joined his standard. This William married
Isabel, third daughter of Hugh the Great, who
was Earl of Vernandoise.
William, third Earl of Warren and Surrey,
was slain in the second crusade.
Reginald de Warren was heir to William,
third Earl of Warren and Surrey. He married
Adela, daughter of Sir Roger de Mowbray,
Knight, the renowned leader in the second
crusade. Reginald de Warren and Adela, his
wife, had a son William de Warren, who mar-
ried Isabel, daughter of Sir William de Hayden,
Knight. Their son. Sir John Warren, married
Alice, daughter of Roger de Townsend, Esq.
Sir John Warren and wife Alice had a son John.
This Sir John Warren married Joan, daughter
of Sir Hugh de Port, Knight. Sir John War-
ren and wife Joan had a son Edward.^ Sir
Edward Warren married Maud, a daughter of
Richard de Skeyton, and their son. Sir Edward
Warren, married Cicely, daughter of Nicholas
de Eaton, Knight. Sir Edward Warren and
his wife Cicely had a son John. Sir John
Warren married Agnes, daughter of Sir Richard
de Wymington, Knight, and their son. Sir
Lawrence Warren, Knight, married Margery,
a daughter of Hugh Bulkley, Esq., of Ware
in Shropsliire. Sir Lawrence Warren and
Margery, his wife, had a son John, who married
Isabel, daughter of Sir John Stanley, Knight.
John Warren and Isabel, his wife, had Sir
Lawrence Warren, who married Isabel, daugh-
ter of Sir Robert Leigh, Knight. Sir Lawrence
Warren and Isabel, his wife, had a son William,
seated at Countan, in Nottinghamshire, he
married Anne; died May 1, 1496. William
Warren and wife Anne had John, who married
Elizabeth; he died in 1525. John Warren
and his wife Elizabeth had John of Headbury,
in the parish of Ashburton, in Devonshire, Eng-
land. John of Headbury and his wife had
Christopher, who married and had a son Wil-
liam, who married Anne, daughter of Thomas
Mable, of Calstock, in Cornwall. William
Warren and Anne, his wife, had a son Christo-
pher, who married Alice, daughter of Thomas
Webb, of Sidnam in Devonshire. Christopher
Warren and Alice, his wife, had Rev. Robert,
known as the "parson of Rome," John, Thomas
(no information in relation to him), Richard,
Christopher (who married Sarah Opie, in Ply-
mouth, England) and William (merchant in
London, England, married Mary, daughter of
William Culling or Cutting). Of these, John
(according to Thomas C. Armory, one of his
descendants) was born about 1581, died 1667;
he came with Sir Richard Saltonstall in Win-
throp's fleet in 1630. He settled at Watertown,
Mass., and was the ancestor of General Warren,
and also ancestor of the late Dr. John C. War-
ren, of Boston, who spent considerable time
and a large amount of money. in England and
France getting the records and tracing the
lineage of the Warren family from the eighth
and ninth centuries to the present.
The American line which we are tracing is
given in detail as follows :
(I) Richard Warren, noted above as son of
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Christopher and Alice, was a merchant, of
Greenwich, in the County of Kent, England,
and was one of the Pilgrims who came in the
"Mayiiower," 1620. His wife and children
came subsequently, he having left tliem in Eng-
land. He was the ancestor of Gen. Joseph
Warren, who was killed at the battle of Bunker
Hill, and was also the ancestor of the branch
of the Hathaway family outlined in the preced-
ing, through Salome Cushman. Richard
Warren married Elizabeth (Juatt) Marsh,
widow, and she came to Plymouth with her
children on the "Little James" or "Ann" in
1623. She died in Plymouth in 1673, aged
ninety years; he died in Plymouth in 1628.
They had children: Elizabeth, who married
Sergt. Richard Church; Mary; Ann; Sarah,
and Abigail — all born in England; and two
sons born in America, Nathaniel ^nd Joseph.
Sergt. Richard Church, husband of Elizabeth
Warren, was a volunteer soldier in the Ply-
mouth Colony forces sent to fight the Pequot
Indians in 1637 and held the office of sergeant.
He was by trade a carpenter. Their son, Ben-
jamin Church, born in 1639, was the celebrated
warrior and Indian fighter who destroyed King
Philip and captured his successor, the chief
Annawann. A great-grandson of Sergt. Richard
Church was born at Little Compton and
christened Thomas. This Thomas Church was
appointed colonel of one of the Patriot reg-
iments of Rhode Island in 1775 and was a
member of the State Senate.
(II) Nathaniel Warren, son of Richard, had
twelve children, born as follows : Richard,
1646; Jabez, 1647; Sarah, 1649; Hope, 1651;
Jane, 1652; Elizabeth, 1654; Alice, 1656;
Mercy, 1658; Mary, 1660; Nathaniel, 1661;
John, 1663; James, 1665.
(III) Richard Warren (2), son of Nathaniel,
went to Middleboro and married Sarah. He
died in 1698, aged about forty-eight years.
(IV) Samuel Warren, son of Richard (2),
was born March 7, 1683. He was by trade a
tanner. He married Elizabeth Bellington Jan.
26, 1703, and they had eleven children, born as
follows: Priscilla, 1704; Jabes, 1705; Samuel,
1707; Cornelius, 1709; James, 1710; Nathan,
1712; Joseph, 1714; Joanna, 1717; Benjamin,
1720 ; Sarah, 1721 ; and Josiah, 1724.
(V) James Warren was a shoemaker. He
died in Tiverton, R. I., in what is now Fall
River, Mass., about 1790, in his eightieth year.
On Sept. 4, 1735, he married Mary Perry, of
Freetown, and their children were: Samuel,
born in 1737; Mary, 1739; Cornelius, 1741;
Gamaliel, 1744; James, 1745.
(VI) Gamaliel Warren, son of James, mar-
ried Ruth Jenckes about 1765, and died March
10, 1807, aged sixty-three years; she died Aug.
26, 1835, aged eighty-nine years. They had
children as follows : Perry, 1767 ; Henry, 1769 ;
Abraham, 1772; Benjamin, 1775; Josepli,
1776; Elnathan, 1778; Samuel, 1781; Russell,
1783 ; Ruth, 1785 ; Gamaliel, 1787 ; and Abigail,
1791. Gamaliel changed his name to Minton.
(VII) Joseph Warren, son of Gamaliel, was
a remarkable carver of wood. He married
Rhoda Borden, and they had six children:
Marshall, born April 8, 1800; Almira, born
Jan. 1, 1805 ; Minerva, who married Joseph S.
Cook; Admiral, born Aug. 24, 1813; Hiram;
and Abby, born Aug. 10, 1811, who married
Samuel Hathaway.
CHARLES EVERETT MOORE, general
superintendent of the George E. Keith Com-
pany's extensive shoe manufacturing plants, is
one of Brockton's best known makers of shoes,
one who has grown up with the business and
whose force and energy, combined with natural
executive ability, have forced him to the front
rank in the shoe indiistry. He went to work
at the age of fourteen years sweeping floors in
a shoe factory, and has risen step by step until
to-day (1911), at the age of but forty-five
years, he is in charge of one of the most exten-
sive shoe manufacturing concerns in the world.
Mr. Moore was born Nov. 10, 1866, in Milford,
Mass., son of John Moore, Jr., and Sarah
Prince (Dudley) Moore.
John Moore, Sr., his grandfather, was a na-
tive of England. A musician by profession,
after coming to America he was for a number
of years engaged in teaching music. Although
his favorite instrument was the clarinet, Mr.
Moore was proficient in the playing of many
instruments. He finally settled in Sutton,
Mass., and was leader and instructor of the
Sutton band for a number of years, and under
his guidance many of the members of the band
became adepts. Mr. Moore died Jan. 31, 1876,
in Sutton, Mass., aged seventy-eight years. He
married Anna Smith, who died in Milford,
Mass., the mother of the following children:
Sarah, who died unmarried; John, Jr., men-
tioned below; William, a shoemaker by trade;
Katherine, who married Edward Schofield, and
died in Boston; Nellie, who died aged nineteen
years; and Jennie H., who married George H.
Harris (they reside in Boston).
John Moore, Jr., father of Charles Everett,
was bom in Troy, N. Y., Aug. 21, 1831. He
early in life took up his residence in Milford,
Mass., and for a number of years followed the
trade of shoemaking, and later was engaged as
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a traveling salesman in the interests of the
Whittemore pegging machine, which in those
days was extensively used in the making of
shoes. Upon the breaking out of the Civil war
in 1861 Mr. Moore enlisted in Company F, 36th
Mass. V. I., and served his country until the
close of the war, taking part in many of the
battles of that memorable conflict. Returning
from the war Mr. Moore continued his resi-
dence at Milford until about 1868, when he
removed with his family to Holbrook, Mass.,
where the remainder of his life was spent,
and where he passed away Feb. 13, 1905. Mr.
Moore was a kind and devoted husband and
father, and although in ill health for several
years prior to liis death retained his cheerful
and kindly manner. He was a consistent mem-
ber of the Congregational Church at Holbrook,
and was an active member of Capt. Horace
Niles Post, No. 110, G. A. E., of Randolph,
Mass., in which he held various offices. On
Jan. 15, 1852, Mr. Moore married Sarah Prince
Dudley, daughter of Peter and Juliette (Eob-
inson) Dudley, of Sutton, Mass., who survives
her husband, and makes her home with her son,
Charles E. Moore. To Mr. and Mrs. Moore
were born thirteen children, of whom four did
not outlive infancy. The others were : Edward
L., a shoe salesman, married Alice Lee, of Bur-
lington, Vt., where they reside; Frederick H.,
a shoe worker and the inventor and patentee
among other articles of Moore's Patent Blind
Opener and Shutter, died in Holbrook in
March, 1886, aged thirty-three years, unmar-
ried; Mary Lillian is the wife of Deacon Brad-
ford H. Nash, and they reside in Brockton;
William H., a shoe worker, died in Holbrook
in November, 1885 (he married Hattie Flan-
ders, of Lawrence, Mass.) ; George E. died in
infancy; Frank A. died in infancy, as did also
George (2) ; Charles Everett is mentioned be-
low; Nettie Frances is unmarried and lives
with her brother Charles E.
Charles Everett Moore was born in the old
shoe town of Milford, Mass., Nov. 10, 1866.
^Vhen he was but two years of age his parents
moved to Holbrook, and in the latter town he
received his schooling, attending first the dis-
trict schools and then the high school, leaving
the latter when about thirteen years of age. At
the age of barely fourteen years he entered
Thomas White & Co.'s shoe factory under
Eugene Snell, who was boss of the stitching-
room, his first duty being the sweeping of the
floors. He did not sweep floors very long, how-
ever, being soon put to rimning a Merrick pow-
er eyeleting machine. From that he entered the
stitching-room, where for a time he was em-
ployed stitching straps on the old Don Pedro
shoes, after which he took up the various
branches of the work in the stitching-room.
Some time later, when Mr. Snell gave up his
place, Mr. Moore was made foreman of this de-
partment, retaining that position until the firm
went out of business on the death of Mr. White.
During his thirteen years' experience with this
concern Mr. Moore had applied himself to every
detail of the work of his department, and had
acquired a thorough knowledge of the business.
He next became foreman of the stitching-room
of the S. H. Howe Shoe Company, at Marlboro,
Mass., in which capacity he remained for about
a year, when on May 26, 1897, he accepted the
foremanship of the stitching-room of the
George E. Keith Company's factory at Cam-
pello, which at that time consisted of No. 1
factory, he having charge of about 160 hands.
He remained in that capacity for about seven
years, when he was made superintendent of the
plant, where for the next two years he had
under his supervision 250 hands. During his
service with the Keith Company Mr. Moore has
seen the business grow from a one-factory plant
to a large industry with seven factories at Cam-
pello, one at Middleboro, one at North Adams
and one in East Weymouth, the latter being
used for the manufacture of ladies' shoes. On
Jan. 1, 1906, Mr. Moore was made general
superintendent of the whole system, now having
supervision of over 4,80D hands, in which he
is assisted by seven superintendents and sixty-
three foremen.
Although exacting and insistent in matters of
detail, Mr. Moore is popular with his subordi-
nates. He is an active and prominent member
of the Brockton Association of Superintendents
and Foremen, which organization he served as
president for a period of three years. He was
one of fifteen judges at the World's Fair, St.
Louis, 1904, serving in the shoe department,
and there received a medal and diploma, the
latter being in recognition of his membership
on the international board of experts. Frater-
nally he is a member of Norfolk Lodge, A. F.
& A. ■ M., of Eandolph ; Satucket Chapter, E.
A. M. ; Brockton Council, E. & S. M. ; and Bay
State Commandery, K. T., of Brockton. He
is also past chancellor commander of Norfolk
Lodge, No. 119, K. of P., of Holbrook. He
belongs to the Commercial and Country Clubs
of Brockton, and to the New England Order
of Protection.
In political faith Mr. Moore is a stalwart
advocate of the principles of the Eepublican
party, and while a resident of Holbrook he was
active in the municipal life of the town, serving
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as a member of the board of selectmen for a
period of three years, the last year of which
he was chairman of the board. He was also a
director of the Holbrook Cooperative Bank for
several years. He has always had a high re-
gard for the town of Holbrook, where he spent
his boyhood days, and the town has the use
of a tract of land he owns, as a park. Since
coming to Brockton he has taken an active in-
terest in the Y. M. C. A., giving freely of his
time and money to advance its interests. He
and his family belong to the South Congrega-
tional Church of Campello.
On Nov. 14, 1888, Mr. Moore married Eva
Florence Peckham, daughter of Charles and
Ellen Frances (Thurston) Peckham, of Hol-
brook, Mass., and they have one daughter, Ha-
zel Gertrude, born in Holbrook Nov. 24, 1893.
Mr. Moore's success in life has been due to
his own energy, perseverance and ability, and
his rise has shown what a boy can do if he has
the determination to win. Recently in an ad-
dress before the Boston Association of Superin-
tendents and Foremen he made the claim that
there is no reason to-day why a boy cannot get
ahead in a shoe factory as well as the boys of
years ago.
READ (New Bedford family). The Read
family of New Bedford, whose head was the
late Joseph R. Read, who was for many years
engaged in business here and one of the city's
substantial men, successful in business and use-
ful in citizenship, comes of an early family of
Ancient Rehoboth, this Commonwealth, and Mr.
Read himself married into one of the ancient
and prominent families of Portsmouth, Rhode
Island.
There follow in chronological order and
somewhat in detail the successive generations
of this New Bedford branch of Reads.
(I) John Read, supposed son of William and
Lucy (Henage) Read, was bom in 1598, and
it is said came to America with the great fleet
in 1630. He is of record in 1637 in Wey-
mouth, was in Dorchester the next year, and
went from there to that part of Braintree now
Quincy. In 1643 or 1644 he accompanied Rev.
Mr. Newman and his church society to Reho-
both, where his name appears the third on the
list of purchasers of the town. He was a man
of large property for those times, and held the
ofBce of constable, which was the chief execu-
tive office in town. He lived in that part of
Rehoboth now Seekonk, and was a prominent
and leading man; he kept a public house. He
died Sept. 7, 1685, aged eighty-seven years. The
Christian name of his wife was Sarah, and their
children were : Samuel, William, Abigail, John,
Thomas, Ezekiel and Zachariah (twins), Moses,
Mary, Elizabeth, Daniel, Israel and Mehetabel.
(II) John Read (2), bom Aug. 29, 1640,
in Braintree, married Rachel. Mr. Read was
killed by the Indians in the fight March 21,
1676, sometimes styled "Pierce's Fight." He
was a prominent man and was distinguished by
the appellation of "Mr." His children were:
Sarah, born Dee. 14, 1664; Mehetabel, bom
April 13, 1667; John, born Dec. 8, 1669; and
Thomas, born July 23, 1672.
(III) Thomas Read, born July 23, 1672,
in Rehoboth, married (first) June 21, 1699,
Sarah Butterworth, and (second) Martha. Mr.
Read died Nov. 25, 1748. His children, all
excepting the eldest born to the second wife,
were: Patience, born April 16, 1708; Thomas,
March 10, 1712; Martha, Nov. 4, 1715; Noah,
Dec. 26, 1717; Hannah, June 18, 1720; Sarah,
Dec. 12, 1722; and Peter, Dec. 26, 1724.
(IV) Noah Read, born Dec. 26, 1717, in
Rehoboth, married Anna Hunt. He died Oct.
14, 1773. Their children were: Peter, bom
Nov. 20, 1742; Martha, May 2, 1744; Noah,
Feb. 19, 1746; Perez, Aug. 4, 1748; Cyrel,
Sept. 20, 1750; Thomas, Dec. 25, 1752; Anna,
May 29, 1755; Judith, July 20, 1758; William,
Oct. 12, 1760; and Lois, Dec. 23, 1763.
(V) Thomas Read, born Dec. 25, 1752, in
Rehoboth, married Hannah Bourne, bom Dec.
24, 1761, died Jan. 10, 1817, and lived at Re-
hoboth, Mass., where their children were bom
and where Mr. Read died Sept. 2, 1816. The
children were : William, born in October, 1785 ;
Francis, Aug.' 3, 1787 (died in 1814) ; Betsy,
October, 1789 (died in 1847) ; Thomas, April
28, 1791; Samuel, April 3, 1794; Noah, July
25, 1796; and John B., May, 1799 (died in
1848).
(VI) William Read, born Oct. 19, 1785, in
Rehoboth, Mass., married March 6, 1808, Sarah
Rogers, and lived in Somerset, Mass., where
some of his children were born; he also lived
later at Fall River, where he died Nov. 2, 1863.
His children were : Hannah Bourne, born Oct.
9, 1808, died June 16, 1838 ; Peter, born Jan.
22, 1810, died Jan. 22, 1811; William was
born Feb. 13, 1811; Thomas, born April 30,
1814, died Oct. 5, 1822; Francis Bourne was
born March 15, 1816; Joseph R. was bom July
5, 1818; Julia Ann, born Dec. 21, 1821, died
unmarried in 1904.
(VII) Joseph R. Read, son of William and
Sarah (Rogers) Read, was born July 5, 1818,
in Somerset, Mass., and early in life learned
the tailor's trade in Fall River, Mass. Remov-
ing to New Bedford he was employed as a cut-
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ter in the outfitting firm of 0. & E. W. Sea-
bury until 1850. In the year last named, asso-
ciated with Edward T. Taber, who had been in
the employ of the same firm, he purchased the
business of the firm, and continued it with suc-
cess. Subsequently Nathan S. Ellis was admitted
to a partnership in the concern and later,
on the death of Mr. Ellis, he was succeeded
by Darius P. Gardner, and the business was
so carried on and with great success until the
time of Mr. Read's death.
A man of- quiet manner, unostentatious and
devoted to business, Mr. Read had little or no
taste and less ambition for public position;
however, he was a member, and an efficient and
valued one, in 1874, of the board of aldermen
of the city. He was a man of decided and clear
convictions, and enjoyed the confidence and re-
spect of all who knew him. He was fond of
the best literature and especially of history,
possessed an unusual mind and had fine con-
versational powers. His social qualities en-
deared him to a large circle of friends, and
these same qualities made his home ever bright
and cheerful. This home, too, was most dear
to him. He died Sept. 12, 1879.
On JSTov. 17, 1844, Mr. Read was married
to Cynthia A., born Sept. 30, 1823, daughter
of Jonathan and Cynthia (Howard) Potter, he
a direct descendant of Nathaniel Potter, an
Englishman who came to New England as
early as 1638 and settled in Portsmouth, R.
I.; was admitted an inhabitant of the island
of Aquidneck in that year and in the follow-
ing year was one of the twenty-nine signers
of the Compact binding them "into a civil body
politicke," from whom his descent is through
Ichabod Potter and wife Eleanor, Jonathan
Potter and his wife Rebecca (Southward) and
Wesson Potter, of Westport, and his wife Mary
(Kirby).
Mr. and Mrs. Read had children as follows:
Clara A., bom Sept. 28, 1845; William Fran-
cis, born Oct. 14, 1849, who married Oct. 22,
1879, Eleanor Masters, of Syracuse, N. Y., and
has three children — Warren Kempton (born
Aug. 18, 1883, married, Oct. 27, 1907, Jessie
Sawyer, of Sharon, Mass., and has one child,
Warren Kempton. Jr., born Aug. 15, 1908),
Joseph Masters (born June 6, 1885, married
Jan. 12, 1909, Amelia Hazleton, of Rome, N.
Y., and has two children, Eleanor, born Sept.
27, 1909, and Elizabeth, born Feb. 26, 1911),
and Everett Preston (born April 25, 1887) ;
Ella Howard, born- Dec. 13, 1850; and Charles
Warren, born Jan. 19, 1853, who married Jan.
21, 1908, Elizabeth Williams, of New Bedford,
Mass., daughter of Theodore F. Williams.
ARTHUR VINAL LYON, M. D., one of the
leading representatives of his profession in Ply-
mouth county, Mass., is a descendant of several
of New England's earliest settled families. The
Lyon family has been prominently identified
with the history of this country for over two
hundred and fifty years, as have many of the
families allied with it by marriage, many of
whom have played a conspicuous part in the
annals of American history. This article, how-
ever, is to treat of the Lyon family of which
Dr. Arthur Vinal Lyon, of Brockton, is a lineal
descendant in the eighth generation, tracing
line back through Ellis V. (VII) ; Vinal (2)
(VI); Vinal (V); Jedediah (IV); Samuel
(III) ; and William, Jr. (II), to William (I),
of Roxbury, who was the American progenitor
of the family. The genealogy of the family
follows in chronological order.
(I) William Lyon, aged "fourteen years," is
found among the passengers that embarked for
America in the ship "Hopewell," Sept. 11, 1635,
at London, England. It is the supposition that
he was an orphan, and is said to have been
placed in the care of Isaac Heath, at Roxbury.
There appears to be no reason to question the
conclusion reached by Albert Welles in his
American Family Antiquity that this was the
William Lyon who was baptized at Heston, now
a part of the city of London, Dec. 23, 1620,
youngest son of William and Anne (Carter)
Lyon, of Heston. According to Welles, Henry
Lyon, fourth in descent from Baron John de
Lyon, left Norfolk, which had been for more
than two hundred years the ancestral home, and
settled in Ryslippe, County of Middlesex. The
family remained in Ryslippe through four gen-
erations. John Lyon, born in Ryslippe about
1470, married Emma Hedde, of Ryslippe, and
had four sons, Henry, Thomas, Richard and
John. The latter settled in Little Stanmore,
County of Middlesex ; his wife's name was Joan,
and their oldest son, born in 1540, was William,
who married Isabel Wightman. William lived
for a time (1596) in London, but was buried
Sept. 7, 1624, at Little Stanmore. He had a
brother Thomas, whose son William was called
the Marquis of Southwold, and was the owner
of the ship "Lyon" which brought to America
so many emigrants. William and Isabel Wight-
man had a son William born about 1580. He
married July 17, 1615, at Harrow-on-the-Hill,
Anne Carter, and made his home in Heston.
His children were : Katharine, baptized Oct.
25, 1616; John, baptized Nov. 30, 1617, who
died in infancy; John, baptized June 1, 1619;
and William, baptized Dec. 23, 1620.
In Roxbury land records the name of Wil-
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Ham Lyon appears as Lion, Lyon and Lyons,
and he seems to have written it himself some-
times Lion, sometimes Lyon or Ljon. He mar-
ried June 17, 1646, Sarah Ruggles, daughter
of John and Mary (Curtis) Euggles, of Nasing,
England. She was born April 19, 1629, and
came to America with her parents while yet
an infant. Her death is not found recorded
in Roxbury, but probably occurred in Rowley,
for in 1677 William Lyon, "of Rowley,"' was
married to Mrs. Martha (Pliilbrick) Casse,
widow of John Casse. In 1645 William Lyon
was a member of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company of Roxbury. He received
in 1648 a grant of land in Roxbury, where his
name also appears as grantee of deeds of lands.
When the new settlement at New Roxbury (now
Woodstock), Conn., was determined upon, in
1686, he was one of the "goers" and he was
assigned a lot there, although he did not
actually occupy it. Several of his grandsons,
William, Thomas, John and Jacob, were prom-
inent members, however, of the new Colony.
The Lyon homestead in Roxbury was on what
ia now Bellevue avenue, formerly called Lyon
street. William Lyon was admitted to full com-
munion in John Eliot's Church in 1655, and
became a freeman in 1666. He lived to the age
of seventy-two, and was buried May 21, 1692,
probably in the West Roxbury cemetery, al-
though there is no stone there to mark his
grave. His widow died about 1694. His will
was dated in the year 1692, and was probated
Oct. 27, 1692, the inventory amounting to £213.
The children born to William and Sarah
(Ruggles) Lyon, at Roxbury, were^ John,
Thomas, Samuel, William, Joseph,' Sarah,
Jonathan and Jonathan (2), the latter two
dying in infancy.
(II) William Lyon, Jr., was born in Rox-
bury, Mass., where he was baptized July 18,
1652, and died there Aug. 10, 1714. His
tombstone, in a good state of preservation, still
stands in the West Roxbury cemetery. On Sept.
1, 1675, in Roxbury, he married Sarah Dunkin,
presumably the daughter of Samuel Dunkin.
She died Feb. 9, 1689, and he married (second)
Nov. 18, 1690, Deborah, who survived him, dy-
ing March 12, 1717. He was one of the goers
at the time of the New Roxbury settlement
(afterward Woodstock, Conn.), but although
he received a grant of land there in 1686 he
did not go there to live. The children of Wil-
liam and Sarah (Dunkin) Lyon, born in Rox-
bury, were: William, Samuel, Hannah, Ben-
jamin and Mehitable ; and of William and Deb-
orah Lyon were : Deborah, David, Martha and
Jacob.
(III) Samuel Lyon was born in Roxbury
Sept. 20, 1679, and died in Middleboro, Mass.,
Feb. 22, 1756, in the seventy-seventh year of his
age. He married (first) Maria Kenrick (born
1675, died April 25, 1704), and married (sec-
ond) Dec. 20, 1704, Joanna Weld, daughter
of John and Hannah (Prentice) Weld. She
was born Sept. 15, 1685. Samuel Lyon is
spoken of as "of Newtown" in 1714, but seems
to have been then residing in Roxbury. He is
also called "lieutenant." He moved with his
family to Middleboro, and united with the
church there Jan. 23, 1732. The only child
born to Samuel and Maria Lyon was John. To
Samuel and Joanna Lyon were born: Eleazer,
Jonathan, Edward, Sarah, Hannah, William,
Jedediah and Phebe.
(IV) Jedediah Lyon was born in Roxbury,
Mass., Sept. 7, 1721, and died in Middleboro,
Mass., Feb. 9, 1807. He married Nov. 24, 1743,
at Middleboro, Mary Cushman, born Dec. 22,
1723, daughter of Ichabod and Patience
(Holmes) Cushman, of Plympton, Mass. At the
Lexington alarm Jedediah Lyon was corporal
in Capt. Abiel Pierce's company of militia, and
he served three months, 1776-77, as private
in Capt. Nehemiah Allen's company, being then
fifty-five years old. The children of Jedediah
and Mary (Cushman) Lyon, born in Middle-
boro, were : Samuel, Joanna, Fear, Joanna (2),
Mary, Isaac, Rebecca, Phebe, Lemuel, Lucy
and Vinal.
(V) Vinal Lyon was born presumably in
Middleboro, Mass., although no town record is
found, date probably between 1762 and 1766.
He died in Middleboro Nov. 28, 1819. On
Sept. 8, 1796, he married Chloe Richmond.
Accdrding to the Plymouth county Probate
records his widow was appointed guardian May
1, 1820, of four minor children, Jane Wash-
burn, Chloe Richmond, Phebe and Vinal, all
under fourteen years of age. The children of
Vinal and Chloe (Richmond) Lyon, all born
in Middleboro, v<'ere : Mary C., born June 21,
1797, died Jan. 1, 1820 ; Lemuel, born April 19,
1799, died May 21, 1848 ; Jane Washburn, born
May 19, 1801, married Jan. 24, 1822, Jason
Wilbur; Chloe Richmond, born Oct. 4, 1803,
married Philip Wood; Fear T., born in 1809,
died Jan. 22, 1820; Eunice, born in 1813, died
Dec. 15, 1819; Phebe married Hosea Kingman,
and died without issue ; Vinal was born Nov. 30,
1811.
(VI) Vinal Lyon (2) was born in Middle-
boro, Mass., Nov. 30, 1811. He was a builder
and carpenter, employing many men, and con-
tinued at this occupation during the actjve years
of- his life, a thrifty, enterprising man, success-
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ful in his business enterprises. He became a
sutler in the Civil war, and returned home
broken in health. He was a Whig and later a
Republican in political faith, and served the
town of North Bridgewater as a selectman for
several years. He built the large house in
Campello, corner of Main street and Lyon
avenue, where he resided, and which is still
owned in the family. He died Nov. 16, 1866.
On Oct. 25, 1840, he married Deiparis Williams
Keith, who was bom Oct. 8, 1818, and died
April 9, 1892, daughter of Charles and Mehit-
able (Perkins) Keith, and a direct descendant
of Rev. James Keith, the first minister at
Bridgewater. The children born of this union
were: Ellis Vinal, born Aug. 30, 1841, is
mentioned below; Martha Ann, born Nov. 10,
1843, married April 8, 1866, Edmund B. Fan-
ning, of Brockton ; Chloe Richmond, born April
5, 1845, married June 3, 1866, Lysander F.
Gurney, of Brockton, who is mentioned else-
where ; Granville Ward, born Oct. 7, 1846, mar-
ried Dec. 3, 1873, Sallie J. Hart, and they are
living at Enterprise, Ky., where he is stationed
as a Methodist minister; Mary Williams, born
Sept. 16, 1849, married April 17, 1872, Rufus
E. Packard, late of Brockton ; Abbie Jane, born
Sept. 7, 1851, married Sylvester 0. Snyder
Aug. 20, 1872, and died in Louisville, Ky., in
1905 ; and Maggie Keith, born March 24, 1859,
died in July, 1859.
(VII) Ellis Vinal Lyon was born in North
Bridgewater Aug. 30, 1841. He was a graduate
of the State normal school at Bridgewater, and
for several years was successfully engaged in
teaching in Braintree and North Weymouth. In
1861 he enlisted in the 4th Massachusetts
Cavalry, Captain Richmond,, and died in Peters-
burg, Va., Sept. 24, 1864. His term of service
had expired, and his family and friends were
expecting him home, on the day that news came
of his death, which was caused by peritonitis.
His body was embalmed and sent home, and he
was buried (vith military honors on Sunday,
Oct. 3, 1864, a detachment of cavalry attending.
His remains are interred at Weymouth. Mr.
Lyon was a consistent member of the Congre-
gational Church, and in political faith was a
Republican. On Dec. 1, 1861, he married
Hattie F. Kingman, daughter of Ebenezer and
Eveline (Bates) Kingman, of Weymouth, who
survives and resides in Brockton. They had one
son, Arthur Vinal.
(VIII) Arthur Vinal Lyon, M. D., was born
Jan. 12, 1863, in Braintree, Mass., and began
his educational training in the public schools
of Weymouth, graduating from the Weymouth
high school in the class of 1879. He then
entered Thayer Academy, at Braintree, graduat-
ing therefrom in the class of 1880. Entering
Amherst in the latter year, he was a student at
that college for four years, receiving the degree
of A. B. in the class of 1884, and the degree of
A. M. was conferred upon liim in 1903 by the
same institution. He took a medical course
at Harvard Medical School, graduating with the
degree of M. D. in 1887. After receiving his
diploma from Harvard he immediately took
up the practice of his chosen profession in
Brockton, in which practice he has continued
with marked success. Both as a physician and
citizen Dr. Lyon has been called upon to hold
many positions of trust and responsibility, and
has never failed to respond promptly to every
call made upon him. He has served as a mem-
ber of the school board of Brockton for over
twenty years, and was chairman for a period
of five years, and now (1911) is serving his
seventh term as a member of that board, a
term constituting three years' service. He has
served as a visiting physician of the Brockton
hospital since its organization. Dr. Lyon is a
member' of the Porter Congregational Church,
and has served several years as a member of
the standing committee of the church. In
political faith he is a believer in the pj-inciples
of the Republican party.
On June 30, 1887, Dr. Lyon was married to
Mary Adelaide Bates, daughter of Alpheus and
Hannah M. (Smith) Bates, of East Weymouth,
and this union has been blessed with three sons,
as follows: Ellis Vinal, born May 21, 1889,
died Nov. 28, 1889; Arthur Bates, born July
18, 1890, graduated from the Brockton high
school in the class of 1908, and is now a student
at Amherst College, class of 1912; and Harold
Alpheus, born Aug. 3, 1893, graduated from
the Brockton high school in the class of 1911,
and is now a student at Amherst College, class
of 1915.
Dr. Lyon is a man whose active mind is not
satisfied with present conditions. In his pro-
fession he is constantly studying, keeping him-
self well in touch with the discoveries and
theories of the day. He holds membership in
the Brockton City Medical Society and the
Massachusetts Medical Society, before which
bodies he is a frequent debater. His practice
is a large one, and he has been successful in
many serious cases, and is frequently called into
consultation, the members of his profession
recognizing his knowledge of the various
branches of the profession.
On the paternal side Dr. Lyon is descended
from sixteen of the "Mayflower" passengers, as
follows : Isaac Allerton and wife, Mary Norris,
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through their daughter Mary, who married
Elder Thomas Cushman; John Alden and his
wife, Priscilla MuUins, through their son Jos-
eph; William Mullins and his wife Priscilla;
Elder William Brewster and wife; Francis
Cooke; John Howland; John Tilley and wife
Bridget and their daughter Elizabeth, who mar-
ried John Howland; Richard Warren; and
Thomas Rogers. He is also a descendant of
four of the "Fortune" passengers, and thirteen
of the passengers of the "Ann" and "Little
James." He is a lineal descendant of nine Revo-
lutionary soldiers, as follows: Col. Simeon
Gary; Corporal Jedediah Lyon; Levi Keith;
Benjamin Keith; Jonas Reynolds; Josiah Per-
kins, Sr. ; Josiah Perkins, Jr.; Ensign Luke
Perkins, and Job Richmond. He is also a lineal
descendant of sixteen of the original proprietors
of Bridgewater, Mass., and of seven of the
original proprietors of Taunton, Massachusetts.
HORACE F. WOODARD, senior member of
the firm of Woodard & Wright, last manufac-
turers of Brockton, is one of the substantial
and successful business men of that thriving
city, and as well one of the honored and highly
respected citizens of the . community in which
he is so well and favorably known. Mr. Wood-
ard is a native of Vermont, bom at Tunbridge,
Orange county, Sept. 25, 1835.
Theodore Woodard, his grandfather, was one
of the original sixty-one grantees of the town
of Vershire, Orange Co., Vt., in 1781, but of
his antecedents and whence he came we have
failed to learn, the town records of Vershire
prior to 1793 having been destroyed by fire
about that time. Theodore Woodard married
Sally Ferguson, and they had a large family,
among their children being: John, Cyrill,
Jehial, Harriet and Hannah.
Jehial Woodard, son of Theodore, and father
of Horace F., was born in January, 1792,
in Vershire, Vt. He was engaged extensively
in farming and also- lan a grist and saw mill.
He was a quiet,, unpretentious man, generous
and kind in his impulses, hard-working, in-
dustrious, and a good provider for his family.
In early life he allied himself with the Whig
party, later becoming a Detfi'ocrat of the old
school, but he was not inclined to office seek-
ing, preferring to give his time to his business
and to his family, to whom he was much de-
voted. His unassuming disposition won him
many friends, and he enjoyed the respect and
esteem of the commimity. He died Jan. 27,
1875, in South Royalton, Vt., at the advanced
age of eighty-three years.
In 1817 Jehial Woodard married Polly Pea-
body, who was born April 28, 1796, in Tun-
bridge, Vt., daughter of John Peabody, of
Tunbridge. She died April 26, 1880, at South
Royalton, aged eighty-four years. Thirteen
children were born to this worthy couple, of
whom we have the following record: (1)
Harvey H., born Aug. 25, 1818, was engaged
in the hotel business in South Royalton, Vt.,
for a number of years, and died May 6, 1878.
He married Adeline E. Davis. (2) Charles W.,
born Oct. 9, 1819, died in May, 1826. (3)
Ira K., bom March 25, 1821, died Aug. 23,
1822. (4) Mary, born Jan. 15, 1823, married
Enoch Ordway, and died May 19, 1855. (5)
John Chandler, born Sept. 21, 1824, was a
painter by trade, and died July 22, 1907. He
married Elizabeth P. Bennett. (6) Huldah
P., born Jan. 4, 1826, married Dr. B. H. Phil-
lips, and died Sept. 20, 1887. (7) Edith,
born Feb. 9, 1828, died July 25, 1830. (8)
Henry M., born May 4, 1830, married Sarah
Sargent, and died June 4, 1862. (9) Ellen S.,
born April 7, 1832, is the wife of John S.
Hinkley, to whom she has been married over
fifty years. They reside at Chicopee Falls,
Mass. (10) Emily, bora Dec. 17, 1833, died
Oct. 24, 1889, unmarried. (11) Horace F.,
born Sept. 25, 1835, is mentioned below. (12)
Albert P., bom July 22, 1837, lives in Tun-
bridge, Vt., where he carries on agricultural
pursuits. He married Jane P. Cushman. (13)
Lucinda A., born March 17, 1839, died in
December, 1839.
Horace F. Woodard was born in Tunbridge,
Vt., and obtained his early educational train-
ing in the district schools of his native town,
his time until he was seventeen years of age
being divided between his schooling and such
assistance as his strength and time would per-
mit him to give in work on the farm and in his
father's mill. At the age of seventeen year,s he
left home to make his own way in the world.
Going to Haverhill, Mass., he became appren-
ticed to the lastmaking trade with Levi C.
Wadleigh, in whose employ he remained for a
period of about twelve years, during which time
he had so closely applied himself to the business,
and shown his worth to such an extent, that
he was made foreman of the plant, in which
capacity he served for several years. Not con-
tent with merely a meager knowledge of the
business he had by this time determined should
be his life work, he then went to Boston, where
for about a year he was employed in the last
factory of Gilson & Walker, and from there
changed to the factory of the Frohock Last
Company, where for a period of four years he
was foreman of the plant. Mr. Woodard then
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went to Stoughton, Mass., where for a term
of about ten years he was foreman in the last
factory of Walker & Phinney, and their suc-
cessor, George F. Walker, and for about a year
was the senior member of the firm of Woodard
& Sherman, last manufacturers, of South
Weymouth, Mass., at the end of that time sell-
ing his interests to his partner. During these
years he had been prudent, and, having ac-
quired a thorough knowledge of the various
details connected with the manufacturing of
lasts of all kinds, with his savings he came to
Brockton, in April, 1886, and purchased an
interest in the firm of Lee & Wright, last
manufacturers, taking over the interests of the
senior partner, the firm then becoming Wood-
ard & Wright. Since Mr. Woodard's connec-
tion with this concern the business has been
enlarged and expanded until to-day the firm is
one of the best known in that line of business.
All kinds of lasts for the shoe trade are manu-
factured, giving employment to from seventy-
five to one hundred hands, and the capacity of
the establishment is about 35,000 pairs of lasts
per month, the product being used by the best
known shoe manufacturers throughout the
country.
While a resident of Haverhill, Mass., Mr.
Woodard was made a Mason, joining Merrimac
Lodge, A. r. & A. M., which he served as secre-
tary for one year; since coming to Brockton he
has identified himself with St. George Lodge,
of Campello. Although not a member of any
religious denomination Mr. Woodard attends
church, and is liberal in all his donations to
good and deserving causes. In political faith
he is a Republican, with independent tend-
encies.
On March 15, 1856, Mr. Woodard was united
in marriage to Sarah Elizabeth Carleton,
daughter of Jonathan Carleton, of Plaistow,
N. H., and this happy union has been blessed
with children as follows: Arthur Milton died
in infancy; Edward C, who is connected with
the last factory of his father, married Inez
Maria Curtis, of Stoughton, Mass., and they
have children, Charles F., Bessie M., Arthur C.
and Horace C. ; Ernest died at the age of twen-
ty-one years, unmarried; William M., who is
associated with his father in the last factory,
married Alice King, of Brockton, and has had
twin sons, Carleton K. and one that died in
infancy; Myrtie G. is the wife of Arthur M.
Keith, of Brockton, who is also associated with
Mr. Woodard in the last factory; and Bert
LeRoy, who died in August, 1904, married Alice
Drake, and had one daughter, Mildred, who
has since been adopted by her aunt, Mrs. Keith.
Mr. Woodard is possessed of a quiet, unpre-
tentious manner, which combined with a kind-
ly and genial make-up has won for him many
warm friendships; those who know him best
are warmest in their friendship for him. He
is very generous in his impulses, and no needy
ones are ever turned away from his door with-
out receiving his attention. He is not prone
to pomp or ostentation, but rather the reverse,
being content to spend his leisure moments in
the companionship of his family and home, to
both of which he is very devoted and indulgent.
He holds a warm place in the esteem of a few
intimate friends, and for their comfort and
amusement he has had fitted up a "club room"
in his barn, where almost every night for a few
hours his friends congregate to enjoy a quiet
and friendly game of cards; this coterie is
known as the "Old Men's Club." Mr. Woodard
is also fond of fishing and hunting and each
year spends several weeks in the woods or by
the streams.
CAPT. HENRY CLAY HATHAWAY, of
New Bedford, United States shipping commis-
sioner and auctioneer, earlier a whaleman and
long master mariner, was born Jan. 9, 1842,
in New Bedford. Probably no man now living,
or that has been alive for a score of years, of
the master mariners who have been identified
with the whaling interests of New Bedford, is
more widely known, either personally or by
reputation, than he whose name introduces this
article. Although not himself attaining first
rank in this service, his experience has been
much more varied than that of many who fol-
lowed the pursuit longer than he did, and he
has often played a part in events of importance
which have marked the incidental history of
whaling voyages with thrilling interest. The
"Gazelle" and the "Catalpa" furnish to lovers
of splendid acts a store of romance, and neither
of these can be mentioned without recalling at
the same time tlie services of humanity which
were rendered by Captain Hathaway in connec-
tion with each.
Captain Hathaway springs from ancestry
early and prominent in the Taunton region of
the Commonwealth, among his forebears being
John Hathaway and John Richmond. John
Hathaway, born in England, came to America
at the age of ten years with his father Nicholas,
in 1639. He was a member of the Plymouth
Military Company in 1643. He was living in
Taunton in 1649; was admitted a freeman in
1670, and bought a tract of land in Freetown,
lot No. 18, in 1671. He was constable in 1676
and 1690 at Taunton; was often on the grand
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jury; was selectman 1680 and 1684, and deputy
to the General Court of Massachusetts in
1696-97. His home was in what is now Berk-
ley, known as the Farms. The site of the house
was marked by an iron tablet in 1889, by the
Old Colony Historical Society. The Christian
name of his first wife was Martha. In 1693
he married (second) Euth Dyer, a widow of
Braintree, who died in 1705.
John Hathaway (2), son of John, born in
1650, married Hannah, daughter of James Burt,
and settled in Freetown, where he died in 1730.
James Burt was born in 1622 in England and
in 1635 sailed in the "Falcon" for Barbadoes,
where his older brother Richard was settled.
A few years later he came to New England;
was in Newport in 1639, but his home seems
to have been with his brother's family in Taun-
ton, his brother having soon died.
From this source came the Hathaways of
Freetown, where were born John and Amey
(Read) Hathaway, whose children were:
Braddock D. ; John B. ; Joseph R., who located
in St. Paul, Minn. ; and William, who settled
in East Bridgewater.
Braddock D. Hathaway was bom May 3,
1806, in the town of Rochester, Mass. He
learned the blacksmith's trade and became an
edge tool maker of considerable skill ; he gained
a wide acquaintance through the fine quality
of his workmanship, being a genius in his line,
and had a reputation for honesty that gave him
high standing in the community in which he
lived. Mr. Hathaway made his home in New
Bedford, where he died April 13, 1879.
On Oct. 24, 1829, Mr. Hathaway married,
then being a resident of Raynham, Mass.,
Harriet Richmond, who was born Nov. 27, 1805,
in Dighton, Mass., daughter of Joseph and
Abigail (Swain) Richmond, he a shipwright of
Dighton and she of Nantucket. Mrs. Hatha-
way was a direct descendant of one of the early
and prominent families of this section of Massa-
chusetts, tracing her line from John Richmond,
the immigrant, who came to America from
Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, England, and settled
in Taunton, Mass., being one of the purchasers
there in 1637; through John Richmond (2) of
Taunton and his wife Abigail Rogers, formerly
of Duxbury ; Lieut. Joseph Richmond of Taun-
ton and his wife Mary (Andrews) ; Josiah Rich-
mond and his wife Joanna (Briggs) ; Josiah
Richmond (2) of Dighton and his wife Lydia
(Babbitt), she formerly of Berkley; and Joseph
Richmond of Dighton and his wife Abigail
(Swain).
After their marriage Braddock D. Hatha-
way and his wife lived in New Bedford, and
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their children were: Braddock Richmond,
born June 28, 1830, married Harriet A.
Henderson; Joseph Richmond, born Aug. 11,
1831, married Sarah A. Wilbur; Freeman, born
April 23, 1833, married Martha Damon; Ben-
jamin F., bom Oct. 7, 1834, died March 18,
1836; Benjamin F. (2), born July 10, 1836,
died young; John Francis, born Feb. 21, 1839,
a Civil war soldier, died from wounds received
at Gettysburg; Harriet, born May 28, 1840,
married Frederick S. Damon (both are de-
ceased) ; Henry Clay, born Jan. 9, 1842, is
mentioned below ; Charles M. was born Dec. 14,
1843 ; Abby Swain, born May 26, 1845, is now
deceased; Allen, born June 22, 1847, died April •
27, 1848; Richmond was born Jan. 8, 1849;
Amey Read, born Feb. 5, 1852, married Thomas
Mandell Denham, of New Bedford.
Capt. Henry Clay Hathaway, son of Brad-
dock D. and Harriet (Richmond) Hathaway,
was born Jan. 9, 1842, in New Bedford, Mass.
While yet in his fifteenth year young Hathaway
commenced his life as a whaleman, shipping
Aug. 4, 1856, in the "Lancer" of New Bedford,
a 395-ton vessel of which Capt. Aaron C. Cush-
man was master and Richmond & Wood agents.
His very first trip was an eventful one. Captain
Cushman was accompanied by his wife, who had
long been sick with consumption, and who as
a last resort had undertaken a voyage to the
South Pacific in the hope of regaining her
health. So little hope was there for her re-
covery that her husband had made preparations
in fitting out the "Lancer" to care for her body
in case of death. He himself answered the last
summons before Jiis wife. Coming up from the
cabin, Captain Cushman fell dead upon the
deck while speaking to one of the crew, and
within a few feet of where Hathaway was
serving a turn at the wheel. This was Nov. 23,
1856, and the preparations he had made for
the death of another served for himself. His
body was sent home from Pernambuco, and
later his wife was transferred to a ship home-
ward bound. She died almost in sight of land,
while coming up Massachusetts bay. Hathaway
did not finish the trip on the '"Lancer," but
after two years' service left her, for no par-
ticular reason, at Payta, in Peru, made his way
to Callao, and returned home in a merchant
vessel, the "Enterprise," of New York.
On Aug. 25, 1858, Captain Hathaway sailed
in the bark "Callao," of New Bedford, a vessel
of 324 tons, Andrew J. Fuller being master of
the vessel and Henry Taber & Co. agents. The
"Callao" went- as far north as the Okhotsk sea,
and was out four years. She returned July 20,
1862, with a total of 214 barrels of sperm, 1,543
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of whale and 10,063 pounds of bone. On Sept.
2, 1862, Hathaway again left New Bedford, this
time in the bark "Hercules," a vessel of 335
tons, and went again to the Okhotsk sea. John
G. Dexter was master, Swift & Perry agents.
The "Hercules" arrived home May 5, 1866,
and returned to her owners 348 barrels of sperm,
2,678 of whale, and 25,600 pounds of bone.
On Aug. 15, 1866, he went as third officer of
the ship "Gazelle" to the Indian ocean, of which
vessel Capt. David R. GiSord was master, and
E. C. Jones agent. The "Gazelle" returned
home April 20, 1870, with a total of 1,600
barrels of sperm and three of whale. It was
during this trip that the "Gazelle" was made
famous in England and America by the rescue
of John Boyle O'Reilly, to which reference will
be made further on. On Oct. 26, 1870, Captain
Hathaway shipped as first mate of the "Ga-
zelle," but went only as far as the Cape Verde
islands, where, having taken sick, he left the
ship and returned home. Captain Gilford died
aboard ship on this trip, Aug. 26, 1873.
On April 25, 1871, Captain Hathaway
shipped as first mate in the bark "Milwood,"
and went to Cumberland Inlet on the coast of
Greenland. Sanford S. Milner was master, and
Gideon Allen & Sons agents. The "Milwood"
had good fortune for some six months, but was
caught in the drift and driven ashore Nov. 13,
1871, on Black Lead island, about fifty miles
from the coast of Greenland, and went to pieces.
The crew stripped the vessel and established
themselves on the island for the winter. Here
was a settlement of some three hundred
Eskimos, and what with provisions saved from
the wreck, and the rewards of gunning and
fishing. Captain Hathaway and his comrades
had as pleasant time as civilized people could
expect in such locality. Their stay on Black
Lead island came to an end in September of
the next year, when the steam whaler "Tigris,"
of St. John, N. B., entered the inlet. The
"Tigris" was under charter for a summer cruise
by Captain Spicer of New London, and the
whole party embarked on her. Accidents did not
end here, for the "Tigris" broke her shaft com-
ing out and had to make her way home under
sail. Some of the crew of the "Milwood" left the
"Tigris" at St. John, and the others, including
Captain Milner and Captain Hathaway, went
in her to New London, arriving there Oct. 19,
1872. The "Tigris" brought back 140 barrels
of whale and twenty-two bundles of bone saved
from the wrecked vessel, and previously twenty
barrels of sperm had been sent home. The
"Milwood" had had a long life. She was built
in 1806, but it does not appear that she hailed
from New Bedford until thirty years later.
With this trip closed the service of Captain
Hathaway as a whaler. He served for four
years in the police department of New Bedford,
becoming assistant marshal of police in 1874,
in 1875 being appointed captain of the night
force, and in 1876 appointed chief of police
under Mayor Abraham H. Howland, Jr., wliich
office he filled with credit and ability for two
years. He organized the present police system,
being the first man to wear a uniform. Re-
signing from the police force he went to sea
again, and during the four years from 1878
to 1882 made fourteen voyages as master of the
packet "Veronica" for Loum Snow & Sons, to
the Azores, Madeiras and Canaries. Since then
Captain Hathaway has been ashore, engaged as
an auctioneer and in the real estate business,
with office on Acushnet avenue. New Bedford.
In 1884 and 1885 he served the city as overseer
of the poor. In 1884 President Arthur ap-
pointed him a United States shipping commis-
sioner for the Thirteenth Congressional dis-
trict, and he is still such officer, having served
for over twenty-seven years, being one of the
oldest government officials in New England in
point of service.
The rescue of John Boyle O'Reilly hag been
alluded to above. Convicted before a military
commission in Ireland in 1866, O'Reilly had
been sentenced to death on five capital charges.
Then his sentence was commuted to imprison-
ment for life, and then to twenty years' penal
service. In 1867 he was transported with sixty
other political prisoners to the convict settle-
ment of western Australia. Through the assist-
ance of a Catholic priest O'Reilly escaped from
a convict gang at work on the Banbury road,
and several days later was picked up from an
open boat some eighty miles off shore by Cap-
tain Gilford, whose sympathies in his behalf
had been enlisted through the efforts of Father
Patrick McCabe, the priest referred to. The
escaped prisoner was a guest on the "Gazelle"
until put aboard the ship "Sapphire," of Bos-
ton, bound for Liverpool. From that port
O'Reilly made his way to America. Between
Hathaway and O'Reilly a strong friendship
began at sea and it lasted until the day of the
latter's death. Both men were of about the
same age and the attraction was mutual. What
the one owed to the other may be best inferred
from what follows, written shortly after
O'Reilly's death :
Among the thousands who loved the brave
and tender heart just silenced by death was one
to whom he was bound by ties of affection and
gratitude. O'Reilly owed his escape largely, his
immunity from recapture wholly, and his life
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627
itself ultimately, to a noble American sailor,
Capt. Henry C. Hathaway of New Bedford.
Captain Hathaway was third officer of the
"Gazelle" when that vessel picked up the escap-
ing prisoner off the coast of Australia. With
O'Reilly was an uninvited companion, a ticket-
of-leave man and a wretched criminal, one
Martin Bowman, who had discovered O'Reilly's
plan and threatened to divulge it if he were
not also taken on the "Gazelle." Reluctantly
enough he was included in the party. After a
six months' whaling voyage the "Gazelle"
touched at Rodriguez, an English plant in the
Indian ocean, where the governor came aboard,
and, to the dismay of O'Reilly's friends, de-
manded the convict they were harboring. The
mate, to gain time, gave up Bowman, who,
directly he was landed, obtained his own release
by informing against O'Reilly. This had been
foreseen and provided for by Hathaway. Dur-
ing the night, the ship's grindstone and
O'Reilly's hat were thrown overboard together.
The cry of "man overboard" was raised, boats
were lowered, and so cleverly was everything
managed that one of the English ex-convicts
aboard declared, when questioned by the police,
that he saw O'Reilly sink. The Rodriguez au-
thorities were deceived by the ruse, and the
ship went to sea with O'Reilly secreted under
the steps of the companionway. How Hathaway
before this saved the life of his strangely found
friend, he tells best himself in a letter which
follows :
New Bedford, Mass., 1877.
My Dear Friend:
According to your wish I will now endeavor to give
a brief account of what happened on the day when
Mr. O'Reilly was with me in pursuit of a "bad"
whale on the northwest coast of Australia. I don't
exactly remember the date, but think it was in May,
1869. We lowered away our boats for whales, and
O'Reilly was very anxious to go in my boat; I told
him that he had better stay by the ship, but he in-
sisted on going. I finally consented, and he went.
Mr. Hussey, in another boat, struck the whale first.
I noticed the whale, as soon as he struck him, make
for Hussey's boat, but didn't think at the time he
was a bad one.
We then started for him, and just before we
reached him he "settled," and the next thing I saw
was his back close to our boat. I told Lambert, the
boat-steerer, to "give it to him." As soon as he
struck him the whale raised his flukes and struck
our boat four times, knocking her to atoms. The
first time he struck her he stove her badly, and she
began to fill. I noticed O'Reilly's head droop as
though he was hurt. The rest of the crew jumped
into the sea away from the boat and clung to their
oars; I clung to the stem part of the boat, that be-
ing the only piece left large enough to hold a man
up; this, I think, was about ten feet long. I missed
O'Reilly, and thought he must have drowned, as I
knew he was hurt. When the whale left us the men
swam back to the shattered boat.
I remember saying, "0 my God! where is O'Reilly?"
and Bolter, who was close by my side, said : "There
he is on the other side under water." I looked, and
sure enough there he was about two feet from the sur-
face of the water, bobbing up and down like a cork.
I threw myself over, and by clinging to the broken
keel with my left hand, reached him by the hair of
the head with my right hand and hauled him on the
stovcn boat. I thought then that he was dead, as
the froth was running from his nostrils and mouth;
but a thought struck me if he was dead he would
have sunk; so I raised him up on my shoulder. As I
lay on the side of the boat, with his stomach across
my shoulder,' I kept punching him as much as possi-
ble to get the salt water out of him.
It was several hours before he realized anything,
as the ship was about twelve miles from us to the
windward, and we lay on the stoven boat a long time
before we were picked up by Mr. Bryant, the fourth
mate. The next day after this happened, as O'Reilly
was lying in his bunk, suffering from the blow of the
whale's flukes, he said, "Oh, Hathaway, why didn't
you let me go?" I told him to keep quiet — that he
would live to see better days ; but he couldn't see
it. We don't see far ahead, after all, do we?
The next time we saw whales he came to me and
said he would like to go with me again. I told him
"No," he had got out of one scrape, and had better
rest contented. But he insisted on going and I con-
sented, as he said he wanted revenge. We were
lucky enough that day to get a good big fellow, and
I think he had his revenge, as we minced him up
pretty well. I think it was the death of that whale
that suggested his poem of "The Amber Whale."
I wanted to say how it was that Mr. O'Reilly was
kept on board the "Gazelle" as long as he was, and
who influenced Captain GiS'ord to put him on board
the "Sapphire," at the Cape of Good Hope ; but as I do
not wish to say anything disrespectful of the dead,
I will let it drop. But I will say that if I hadn't
"drowned" him at the Island of Rodriguez two months
afterward, when the English governor searched the
ship for him, he never would have left there in the
"Gazelle," as the old man got frightened.
Yours sincerely,
Henry C. Hathaway.
Captain Hathaway is a Republican in politics
and has filled the office of alderman for Ward
Three, serving under three mayors, Brownell,
Parker and Ashley, respectively. Fraternally
he is a member of A. F. & A. M., Star in the
East Lodge, Council and Chapter, and Sutton
Commandery, of the Knights Templars.
Captain Hathaway married July 19, 1870, in
New Bedford, Catharine Perry, born in New
Bedford, daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth
(Sampson) Perry. Their children were: Ger-
trude, born in September, 1875, now deceased;
Henry Clay, Jr., Sept. 5, 1879, who married
Maria Moran; Braddock B., Aug. 31, 1882,
who is associated with his father in business.
John B. Hathaway, son of John and Amey
(Read) Hathaway, was born July 7, 1808, "in
Rochester, Mass. At the age of six years he
accompanied his family on their removal to
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the village of Assonet, and from that time on
through a long busy life he was identified with
the affairs of Bristol county. When eleven
years old he was indentured to a farmer in
Berkley for five years. He later learned the
shoemaker's trade and followed it for a couple
of years in Assonet. He then went to the grow-
ing village of Fall Elver, and there worked
for Mr. Gardner D. Cook, receiving for his
services $12 per month and his board. From
1828 to 1831 he was employed at calico print-
ing, but owing to ill health he was obliged to
discontinue the business. His next move was
to open a shoe store to which in the year 1834
he added groceries and took his brother Joseph
into partnership with him. His health con-
tinuing poor he disposed of his business in
1841. One year later he began again in the
grocery business, this time engaging in the
wholesale trade. He was burned out in the big
fire that swept his portion of Fall Eiver in
1843, and not being insured, lost every dollar
he had in the business. He erected the first
building constructed after the fire, this on the
site of the Wilcox crockery store on Bedford
street, where he continued the wholesale grocery
business till 1854. He then erected a block
of buildings on a part of the present site of the
Massasoit National Bank building. During the
succeeding ten years he made a competence, and
sold at the end of that period the business to
Messrs. Petty, Lawton & Co., and retired. He
thereafter led a quiet life in the enjoyment of
the fruits of his labors. He passed his winters
in Florida to within a few years of the time
of his death and his summers at the homestead
of his wife in Westport.
Mr. Hathaway, while never active in muni-
cipal politics, served in the lower branch of
the State Legislature in 1866-67, and in the
Senate in 1869-70. He died Jan. 17, 1895, at
his home in Fall Eiver, Mass., aged eighty-six
years, six months, ten days. His wife, formerly
Betsey Phillips, survived him and died March
26, 1900. They had one son, John Francis.
I
HENEY SWAN POETEE, now high
sheriff of Plymouth county, a position he has
most efficiently filled for several years, belongs
to what in way of designation might more
properly be termed the Brockton-Plymouth Por-
ter family, that of which the head was his
father, the late Ahira Swan Porter, who for
years was one of the substantial men and citi-
zens of Brockton, engaged there extensively
as a dealer in horses and carriages ; it is a
branch of the earlier Stoughton family and it
of the early Porter family of Weymouth.
From Eichard Porter, of Weymouth, tlie first
American ancestor of the Brockton-Plymouth
family alluded to and here considered, the line-
age of Sheriff Porter of Plymouth county is
through Sergt. John Porter, Samuel Porter,
Samuel Porter (2), Lieut. Joseph Porter, Col.
Cyrus Porter, Ahira Porter and Ahira Swan
Porter. These generations follow in the order
named and in detail.
(I) Eichard Porter, coming from Weymouth,
England, in 1635, settled in Weymouth, Mass.,
where he received grants of land in 1648, 1661,
1663 and 1668. For many years he was con-
tinuously in ofBce as selectman, constable and
upon committees. He was a member of the
original church there and his name often occurs
on the old records. His will was made Dec.
25, 1688, and the inventory of his estate was
made March 6, 1689. The Christian name of
his wife was presumably Euth, and their chil-
dren were: John, Euth (born Oct. 3, 1639),
Thomas and Mary.
(II) Sergt. John Porter, son of Eichard,
was a resident of Weymouth, Mass., and is said
to have been one of the most enterprising men
of his time. He had many land grants in
Weymouth, and was a large purchaser of lands
in ancient Bridgewater from 1686 to 1699. He
built in 1693 the first sawmill at Little Comfort,
in what became South Abington. He and his
wife sold Grape island in Weymouth in 1705.
Sergeant Porter was a useful, honored citizen,
holding all the various offices at different times.
He married, Feb. 9, 1660, Deliverance, daugh-
ter of Nicholas and Martha (Shaw) Byram,
and they died, he Aug. 7, 1717, and she Sept.
30, 1720. Their children, all born in Wey-
mouth, were : Mary, born Oct. 12, 1663 ; Su-
sanna, born June 2, 1665; John, born July 2,
1667; Samuel; Nicholas; Euth, born Sept. 18,
1676; Thomas; Ebenezer, and Sarah.
(III) Samuel Porter, son of Sergt. John,
married about 1698 Mary, daughter of Jacob
and Abigail (Dyer) Nash, of Weymouth. He
was town officer of Weymouth in 1707, and
about that. iime removed to Abington; was a
, .shoemaker and schoolmaster. He bought the
Daniel Axtel farm in Abington in 1712; was
assessor of the town in 1716 ; selectman in 1714
and for three years thereafter. In 1724 he was
employed by the selectmen to teach school. He
was one of the original members of the church
in Abington, where he died, Aug. 31, 1725.
His children were: Samuel, born May 14,
1699; Mary, Oct. 5, 1701: David, 1702; Jacob,
Aug. 10, 1704 (all in Weymouth) ; Hannah,
Dec. 16, 1712 ; John, Feb. 2, 1716 ; and Abigail,
June 23, 1719 (all in Abington).
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(IV) Samuel PorteT (2), born May 14,
1699, in Weymouth, Mass., married (first)
July 2, 1722, Sarah, daughter of Joseph and
Sarah (Ford) Josselyn, of Abington, and (sec-
ond) May 31, 1764, in Bridgewater, Ruth Reed.
Mr. Porter probably moved to Bridgewater
soon after Dec. 1, 1742, at which time he and
his wife deeded house and land to his brother
Jacob. His children were : Sarah, born Aug.
26, 1723; Mary, Feb. 9, 1725; Samuel, Oct.
12, 1727; Joseph, Feb. 27, 1730; Ebenezer,
Sept. 15, 1731 ; Mary, Aug. 3, 1733 ; Adam, Feb.
24, 1735; Hannah, Feb. 18, 1736; Betterus,
Sept. 23, 1737; Noah, May 13, 1740; Jonathan,
Aug. 27, 1741 ; Deliverance, July 9, 1742 ; Abi-
gail, July 7, 1743 ; Tabitha, in 1744 ; and Sarah.
(V) Lieut. Joseph Porter, born Feb. 27,
1730, in Abington, Mass., married Jan. 25,
1753, Elizabeth, bom July 4, 1733, daughter
of Samuel and Content (Whitcomb) Burrell,
of Weymouth. She went to Abington to teach
school, and was there married. She was a
woman of remarkable personal beauty, as were
all her daughters. Mr. Porter was a resident
of Bridgewater and Stoughton, Mass. Both he
and his wife were admitted to the Bridgewater
Church in 1780. He was a lieutenant in the
militia at the time of the Revolution. He died
Jan. 15, 1803, in the seventy-fifth year of his
age. His 'widow died March 26, 1822, aged
eighty-nine years. His children, of whom the
first seven were recorded in Bridgewater, were :
Elizabeth, born Nov. 8, 1753; Joseph, June
10, 1754; Hannah, July 21, 1758; Robert,
March 30, 1762; Isaac, Feb. 23, 1765; Content,
Feb. 5, 1767; Mehetabel, April 15, 1769; Lib-
beus, April 22, 1771; and Cyrus, 1774.
(VI) Col. Cyrus Porter, son of Lieut. Jos-
eph, born in 1774, married (first) in 1800 Re-
'becca, daughter of Capt. William and Mary
(Perkins) French, and (second) Sept. 8, 1835,
Mrs. Martha, widow of Calvin Alden and
daughter of Ebenezer Hayden, of Stoughton.
Mr. Porter was a resident of the town of
Stoughton, Mass., a farmer, occupied much in
public affairs and of high respectability. He
lived to the advanced age of eighty years, and
died May 29, 1855. His children, all born to
the first marriage, were: Olive, bom Oct. 16,
1800, married Caleb Copeland; Ahira was bom
Nov. 9, 1801; Rebecca, bom Nov. 11, 1803,
died May 25, 1804; Rebecca (2), bom in
1805, married Marcus Copeland; Cyrus, bom
June 12,- 1807, married Eliza J. Dunbar; Me-
hetabel, bora Dec. 3, 1808, married Ezra
Churchill, of Stoughton ; Luther, bom Dec. 18,
1814, married Lucy Talbot; William French,
born Jan. 23, 1823, married Harriet Sears;
Eliza Ann, born April 5, 1829, married Wil-
liam Hall, of North Bridgewater.
(VII) Ahira Porter, son of Col. Cyrus, born
Nov. 9, 1801, in Stoughton, Mass., was a shoe-
treer by trade, which vocation he followed
during the active years of his life. He lived
in East Stoughton, Mass., where he died Dec.
6, 1863. In 1826 he married Rachel D. Swan,
who died Nov. 19, 1861. Their children were:
Ahira Swan, born Jan. 20, 1827, is mentioned
below; Rachel D., born Dec. 27, 1828, married
and resided in Worcester, Mass., where she died;
William, born Aug. 30, 1831, died in Randolph,
Mass.; Samuel, bom June 27, 1833, died in
Worcester, Mass. ; James, born Oct. 4, 1835,
resides at Brant Rock, Mass.; and George W.,
born Jan. 30, 1843, resides in Avon, Massa-
chusetts.
(VIII) Ahira Swan Porter, son of Ahira,
was bom Jan. 20, 1827, in Stoughton, Mass.,
and married April 22, 1849, Louisa Packard,
bora Nov. 29, 1829, daughter of Josiah and
Betsey D. (Bolton) Packard, of North Bridge-
water, Mass., and a direct descendant of Samuel
Packard, who with his wife and child came from
Windham, near Hingham, England, in the ship
"Diligence," of Ipswich, in 1638, and settled
first in Hingham, thence removing to West
Bridgewater, where he was a tavern-keeper and
served as constable; from whom her descent is
through Zaccheus and Sarah (Howard) Pack-
ard; Israel and Hannah Packard; Seth and
Mercy (Bryant) Packard; Jonathan and Su-
sanna (Alger) Packard; Israel and Susanna
(Edson) Packard, and Josiah and Betsey D.
(Bolton) Packard. To Mr. and Mrs. Porter
were born two sons, as follows: Henry Swan,
born May 27, 1852, and Frank Forest, bom
Dec. 14, 1856. The latter married Rachel A.
Porter, daughter of Lewis Porter, of North
Bridgewater, and they had one son, Ahira L.
Porter, who resides in Brockton, where he is
superintendent of the Packard & Field shoe
factory.
Ahira Swan Porter passed his boyhood in his
native town, and in early life followed the trade
of shoemaking as a shoe-treer there until about
the year 1853, when he removed to the town
of North Bridgewater (now Brockton). There
he embarked in the hay and grain business,
opening a store in that part of the town known
as "Factory Village," which he conducted for
about three years, at the end of which time he
disposed of the same and entered the business
in which he continued successfully until his
death. On May 13, 1857, he commenced to run
a stage line to Boston, making three trips a
week, and in the following month, because of
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increasing patronage, began to make daily trips.
He continued to run the line for several years,
until the advent of the railroad. This was
actually the nucleus of his livery and carriage
business, for during this time he established the
livery and sale stable at the head of which he
continued as senior member of the firm — A. S.
Porter & Sons — organized in the course of
time until his death. This business grew
under his direction to one of the largest
of its kind in southeastern Massachusetts, and
the firm was one of the most widely known in
its line of trade in the State. As his sons
grew to manhood Mr. Porter took them into
partnership, the firm thereafter being known as
A. S. Porter & Sons, continuing as such until
the death of the father. This enterprising
firm acted as agent for several of the leading
carriage manufacturers, and its repository in
Brockton was one of the largest in the State.
Mr. Porter was intensely interested in mu-
sical affairs, and had one of the first orchestras
in the town, which was established in 1848,
and for fully twenty years was leader of a
local orchestra bearing his name, and which
was known far and near, he being exceedingly
popular as a prompter. On various occasions
his orchestra was called upon to substitute for
the well-known Germania Orchestra of Bos-
ton. For a number of years he was agent for
Martland's Band, one of the best known musical
organizations in southeastern Massachusetts.
In October, 1876, Mr. Porter was appointed
deputy sheriff by the sheriff, Major Bates, and
continued to serve in that capacity until his
death, during which time he did the greater
part of the criminal work, and was perhaps
the best known deputy sheriff in tlie county.
At one time he was coroner for this section.
In early life he was an old-line Whig, and upon
the formation of the Republican party, in
1856, he allied himself with the latter party,
and continued loyal to the principles of that
party until his death.
Mr. Porter was a member of Paul Revere
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Brockton, a member
of the Stoughton Grenadiers, and a fine member
of the Cunningham Rifles.
Mr. Porter died in Brock-ton Nov. 12, 1886,
in the sixtieth year of his age, and at his
funeral, held at the New Jerusalem Church,
Nov. 17th, there were many evidences of the re-
spect and esteem in which he was held in the
community where he had resided for so many
years; it was largely attended by the citizens
in general, and there were delegations from the
various organizations with which he was con-
nected, the following being represented: Paul
Revere Lodge ; Company I, Cunningham Rifles ;
M. V. M.; Stoughton Grenadier Association;
Martland's Band; city board of engineers; and
deputy sheriffs -of the county.
(IX) Henry Swan Porter, son of the late
Ahira S. and Louisa (Packard) Porter, was
born May 27, 1852, in North Bridgewater (now
Brockton), Mass., and in the common schools
and the high school of his native town acquired
his early educational training. At the age of
twelve years he entered the employ of Brett
Brothers, well-known merchants of North
Bridgewater, as a clerk, and for a period of six
years continued in their service and with their
successors, during the hours not spent in the
schoolroom. After leaving school, at the age
of eighteen years, he entered the employ of
his father, and in 1883 was made a partner in
the business, the firm then becoming A. S. Por-
ter & Sons. For a number of years Mr. Porter
had charge of the selling end of the business,
and traveled extensively over various sections
of the State, selling carriages. After the death
of his father Mr. Porter and his brother con-
tinued the business until 1894, when Mr. Por-
ter disposed of his interests in the business to
his brother, Frank F. Porter.
In political faith Mr. Porter is a stalwart
adherent of the principles of the Republican
party, and for a number of years has been active
in the political affairs of Plymouth county. He
has acted in the public service of the county
since 1875, on March 9th of which year he was
appointed constable and police officer by the se-
lectmen of his native town, continuing in that
capacity until 1882, when the town became
the city of Brockton. On Aug. 16, 1879, he was
appointed deputy sheriff of Plymouth county
under Sheriff A. B. Harmon, and continued
to hold that commission until he was elected
high sheriff of Plymouth county. In 1883 he
was appointed court officer of the county, which
office he still retains. In 1883, 1884 and 1885
he represented Ward Two as a member of the
common council, and in 1886 was a member of
the board of aldermen of his native city; notice
of Alderman H. S. Porter's refusal to continue
in public office appeared in the Enterprise of
Nov. 20, 1886. In 1901 Mr. Porter was elected
high sheriff of Plymouth county, receiving a
very large majority vote, carrying every ward
in his native town, and twenty-three of the
twenty-seven towns in the county, and at each
subsequent election has been elected to the same
office by large majorities, having filled the
office with honor to himself and to the satis-
faction of his constituents.
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member of the Masonic organization, holding
membership in Paul Revere Lodge, A. F. & A.
M., Satucket Chapter, R. A. M., and Bay State
Commandery, Knights Templar, of Brockton,
being a life member of the two former bodies.
He was also a charter member of Banner Lodge,
No. 81, New England Order of Protection, of
Brockton, and is a member of Brockton Lodge,
No. 218, Knights of Honor, of Brockton. While
a resident of his native city he was also an
active member of the Commercial Club, which
numbers among its membership the leading
business and professional men of the communi-
ty. Upon becoming high sheriS of the county
Mr. Porter took up his residence at Plymouth,
where he and Mrs. Porter are prominent in
tlie social affairs of the town as they were in
Brockton, being well and favorably known in
both places.
On Nov. 19, 1873, Sheriff Porter was united
in marriage to Laura Jane Hall, daughter of
David S. and Mary (Partridge) Hall, of Dux-
bury, who is also a descendant of early New
England ancestry, being a direct descendant
in the seventh generation from Miles Standish.
This union has been blessed with one daughter,
Laura Louise, who is the wife of Earl P. Blake,
of Brockton, one of the deputy sheriffs of Ply-
mouth county.
COPELAND. The family bearing this
name is a time-honored one in this Common-
wealth, and has had numbered among its mem-
bers worthy representatives in the business
world as well as in good citizenship. This arti-
cle is to particularly treat of that branch of the
family through which descended the late Fran-
cis Copeland, and his sons, Ira Copeland, Davis
Copeland and the late Heman Copeland, all of
whom have been honored and respected citizens
of the communities in which their lives and en-
ergies have been spent. The history of this
branch of the Copeland family, given in chron-
ological order, beginning with the first Ameri-
can ancestor, follows.
(I) Lawrence Copeland came to America
and settled at Braintree, Mass. It is supposed
that he was a sailor. He married 12th day,
10th month, 1651, Lydia Townsend, the Rev.
Mr. Hibbins, of Boston, performing the cere-
mony. To this union were born children as
follows: Thomas, bom in 1652 (who died in
infancy); Thomas (2), 1654; William, 1656;
John, 1658; Lydia, 1661; Ephraim, 1665;
Hannah, 1668 ; Richard, 1672 (died same day) ;
and Abigail, 1674.
(II) William Copeland, son of Lawrence,
was born 15th day, 9th month, 1656, in Brain-
tree, Mass., and there died Oct. 30, 1716. In
his wdll he called himself "husbandman." On
April 13, 1694, he married Mary Bass, widow
of Christopher Webb, Jr., and daughter of
John and Ruth (Alden) Bass. Their children
were: William, born March 7, 1695; Ephraim,
Feb. 1, 1697; Ebenezer, Feb. 16, 1698; Jona-
than, Aug. 31, 1701; David, April 15, 1704;
Joseph, May 18, 1706; Benjamin, Oct. 5, 1708;
Moses, May 28, 1710; and Mary, May 28, 1713.
(III) Jonathan Copeland, son of William,
was born Aug. 31, 1701, in Braintree, Mass.,
and settled in Bridgewater, where he died Sept.
11, 1790. He was a farmer and tanner and
currier, and tradition says his tannery was in
West Bridgewater. On Jan. 14, 1723, he mar-
ried Betty Snell, daughter of Thomas Snell, Jr.,
of Bridgewater, and their children were: Abi-
gail, born Dec. 9, 1724; Betty, April 17, 1726
(died June 14, 1750) ; Jonathan, Jr., Aug. 9,
1728; Mary, March 26, 1731; Joseph, April
28, 1734; Hannah, May 13, 1737; Elijah, June
3, 1739 ; Daniel, Sept. 13, 1741 ; Sarah, Feb. 13,
1744-45; Ebenezer, July 27, 1746; and Betty
(2), Sept. 23, 1750.
(IV) Jonathan Copeland, Jr., son of Jona-
than, was bom Aug. 9, 1728, in Bridgewater,
and died Nov. 16, 1820, in the ninety-third
year of his age, in West Bridgewater. He was
a farmer, and also a tanner and currier, con-
tinuing the latter business as founded by his
father. On May 22, 1754, he married Mehit-
able Dunbar, daughter of Samuel and-Melatiah
(Hayward) Dunbar, of Bridgewater. She died
Oct. 4, 1827, in the ninety-second year of her
age. To this union were born children as
follows: Jonathan, born April 30, 1755; Me-
hitable, Aug. 19, 1757; Sarah. Dec. 18, 1759;
Asa, Aug. 4, 1762; Caleb, Aug. 6, 1764; Eph-
raim, June 8, 1767 ; Betty, Feb. 27, 1770 (died
in infancy) ; and Mary (or Polly) and Martha,
twins, Aug. 7, 1772, the former dying in in-
fancy, and Martha dying Oct. 8, 1853.
(V) Asa Copeland, son of Jonathan, Jr.,
was born Aug. 4, 1762, in West Bridgewater,
where he died March 26, 1852, in the ninetieth
year of his age. He was engaged in farming
during his active life, and kept house over sixty
years in the same house where now lives his
grandson, Davis Copeland. On Feb. 8, 1792,
he married Persia Howard, who was born Feb.
9, 1772, the daughter of James and Elizabeth
Howard, and died Jan. 21, 1851. Their chil-
dren were: Albert, bom Jan. 28, 1793, a farm-
er and wheelwright, died in West Bridgewater ;
Azel Howard, born Oct. 30, 1795, a farmer and
carpenter, died in West Bridgewater; Asa, Jr.,
born May 20, 1799, a farmer and blacksmith,
died in Bridgewater; Francis was born Dec.
31, 1803,
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(VI) Francis Copeland, youngest son of Asa
and Persia (Howard), born Dec. 31, 1803, in
West Bridgewater, in the same house where
now lives his sou, Davis, followed the occupa-
tion of his ancestors, and during his life was
engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was an
industrious man, and as a citizen commanded
the respect of the community in which his long
life was spent. In his political faith he was
a Democrat of the old school, and took an ac-
tive interest in the affairs of his native town,
holding some minor offices. Both he and his
wife were active members of the Church of
the New Jerusalem at Brockton, he having
been one of the early members of the same
society in West Bridgewater. Mr. Copeland
died Dec. 17, 1882, aged nearly seventy-nine
years, in West Bridgewater, where he is buried
in the Pine Hill cemetery. On Nov. 8, 1830,
he married Judith Washburn Kingman, born
Nov. 15, 1809, daughter of Seth and Judith
(Washburn) Kingman, of North Bridgewater,
and a direct descendant of Henry Kingman,
who came from Wales in 1632 to this country,
settling at Weymouth, Mass., where he became
an early and prominent resident of that town,
her line of descent being through (II) John
and Elizabeth Kingman; (III) Henry and
Bethiah (Howard) Kingman; (IV) Henry and
Mary (Allen) Kingman; and (V) Seth and
Judith (Washburn) Kingman. Seth Kingman,
her father, was a soldier in the Kevolutionary
war, being a member of Capt. Nathan Pack-
ard's company. Col. Eliphalet Cary's regiment,
which marched on account of the alarm of
Rhode Island July 22, 1780, by order of the
council of North Bridgewater; he married Ju-
dith Washburn, born in 1771, daughter of
Jabez Washburn. Mrs. Copeland died in West
Bridgewater Feb. 1, 1876, in the sixty-seventh
year of her age, and is buried at the side of
her husband in Pine Hill cemetery. To Fran-
cis and Judith Washburn (Kingman) Cope-
land were born the following children: Ira,
born Nov. 14, i83J, married Caroline F. Eeed,
of Abington, Mass.; Davis, born March 16,
1835, married Sarah S. Wade; Lucy, bom
April 27, 1839, died unmarried in 1899; and
Heman, born Dec. 30, 1843, who died July
26, 1909, in Chula Vista, Cal., married Caro-
line A. Parker, of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.
(VII) Ira Copeland, inventor and real es-
tate dealer, formerly of Brockton, Plymouth
county, now residing at Newton Highlands,
Mass., was born Nov. 14, 1831, in West Bridge-
water (now a part of the city of Brockton),
eldest son of Francis and Judith Washburn
(Kingman) Copeland. Mr. Copeland was edu-
cated in the schools of his native town and in
the State normal school at Bridgewater, which
in his day was under the principalship of
Nicholas Tillinghast; he graduated from that
institution in the year 1850. For several years
following Mr. Copeland was engaged in teach-
ing, principally at East Bridgewater, West
Bridgewater, Foxboro, Abington and Fall
River, teaching the grammar school at the lat-
ter place, eventually retiring from that profes-
sion on account of ill health. Returning to the
homestead in West Bridgewater, he engaged in
farming for a time, in 1857 engaging in the
grocery business in the town of North Bridge-
water (now the city of Brockton), which then
boasted a population of but 3,000, his place
of business being located on the East side of
the town. He was in business there for a per-
iod of forty years, with continuous success,
during which time he saw the little town ex-
pand and develop until its population exceeded
50,000. Meantime he_also engaged for a num-
ber of years in the cultivation of fruit, in
which he found both pleasure and profit. By
strict attention to the demands of his trade
he prospered, and as he accumulated means
acquired real estate interests in the city, which
he still holds. Closing out his grocery busi-
ness, Mr. Copeland in 1897 moved his family
to Newton Highlands, Middlesex Co., Mass.,
where he resides in a beautiful home on an
elevation which commands a fine view of the
surrounding country.
Though an adtive business man for so many
years Mr. Copeland found time to follow his
inventive inclinations and develop his faculties
along that line, with gratifying results. In
about 1866 he perfected a system of cipher cor-
respondence which is still a secret, and which
though simple was one impossible to translate
without the key by which it was produced. On
Jan. 14, 1868, he invented and had patented
a fruit box and packer, and in 1870 he invented
a horse hoe which he also patented. In 1878
he invented and patented a wringer, upon
which he made an improvement the following
year. In 1887 he patented the improved wire
nail. In 1903 he devised a method of fasten-
ing rails, and in 1904 invented a railroad
spike, which he had patented, also receiving a
patent known as a method of spiking. In
1887 he patented a cement coated vrire nail,
which he had patented and which proved the
most successful of all his inventions and of
which millions of dollars' worth are now sold
annually; in 1900 he invented an apparatus
for cement coating and packing nails, which he
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also patented.- A number of other useful arti-
cles are included in the list of the contrivances
he has produced, several of which have proved
particularly beneficial to those who employ
them.
Wliile a resident of Brockton Mr. Copeland
was quite active in the administration of mu-
nicipal affairs. He is a Democrat, but inde-
pendent in action and a firm supporter of the
doctrines of Henry George, believing ardently
in the single tax tenets. Particularly inter-
ested in the cause of public education in his
home community, he served six years on the
school board. He was a member of the board
of assessors of Brockton in 1881 and 1882.
He takes great pride in the present city of
Brockton, now numbering nearly sixty thou-
sand inhabitants, and it was he who suggested
the name Brockton when the renaming of
North Bridgewater was being discussed, after
the town of Brockton, in Ontario. The name
was adopted after due consideration by the
Board of Trade, of which he was secretary at
that time. Mr. Copeland was also one of the
organizers of the old Board of Trade of the
town of North Bridgewater and served as its
secretary during its existence. He was a mem-
ber of the North Bridgewater Agricultural So-
ciety and served as its first secretary, contin-
uing in that capacity for a period of twenty-
five years, until he removed to Newton High-
lands, and being succeeded in that position by
the late Baalis Sanford. In 1886 he was the
prime mover in obtaining a franchise for the
East Side Electric Railway of Brockton, which
had a trackage of about four and a half miles.
Of this corporation he was vice president, and
acting president, until capitalistic influences
obtained a controlling interest in its capital
stock. This was the first electric railway fran-
chise granted in Massachusetts and, he believes,
in New England. It was the initial step in
making Brockton a great electric railway cen-
ter. Although it is not generally known, Mr.
Copeland was also the prime mover in causing
the Old Colony Railroad Corporation to elim-
inate its grade crossings throughout the city,
which was done at an estimated cost of
$1,800,000.
On Dec. 1, 1853, Mr. Copeland was married,
in Abington, Mass., to Caroline F. Reed, a na-
tive of Abington, daughter of Noah and Mary
Reed, and a descendant of one of the oldest and
bast known families of that section of the State
of Massachusetts. Three children were born
to them : Mary C. ; Helen L., who died in her
twenty-second year; and Marion K., the sur-
viving daughters residing with their parents
in the comfortable family home at Newton
Highlands. Mr. and Mrs. Copeland are mem-
bers of the Church of the New Jerusalem at
Abington, Massachusetts.
(VII) Davis Copelanb, one of the success-
ful agriculturists of the community in which
his long and industrious life has been spent,
was born March 16, 1835, in West Bridge-
water, in that part of the town which has since
been annexed to the city of Brockton, and in
the same house on Copeland street, which was
named for his family, in which he has
resided the greater part of his life. He is the
second son of Francis and Judith Washburn
(Kingman) Copeland. Until eighteen years of
age his winters were spent in acquiring his
education in the district school, while his sum-
mers were devoted to work on the homestead
farm. After leaving school he continued farm-
ing, and since his father's death has success-
fully conducted the homestead of 100 acres.
Being of an industrious and .painstaking nature
he keeps his place in a high state of cultivation.
For the past twenty-five or more years he has
been extensively engaged in market gardening,
supplying his patrons in Brockton with pro-
duce.
Mr. Copeland and his family are active and
consistent members of the Church of the New
Jerusalem, at Brockton, Mr. Copeland having
served as a member of the standing committee
and on the church council. Fraternally he
was a charter member of Howard Lodge, No.
116, Knights of Pythias, of West Bridgewater,
and also a charter member of the West Bridge-
water Grange, No. 156, Patrons of Husbandry.
He was one of the original members of the
Brockton Agricultural Society, and is also a
member of the Bridgewater Historical Society.
In his political faith he is a Democrat, and for
a number of years before becoming a resident
of Brockton took an active interest in the af-
fairs of his native town, having served for five
years as a member of the board of road com-
missioners, for nine years as a member of
the school committee and for a term of four
years as a member of the board of selectmen
of West Bridgewater.
On Dec. 8, 1863, Mr. Copeland married
Sarah Samantha Wade, daughter of Charles
Thomas and Samantha (White) Wade, of
Easton, Mass. Mrs. Copeland is also a de-
scendant of historic New England ancestry, as
well as of Revolutionary stock. Her grand-
father, Thomas Wade, married Silence Phil-
lips, daughter of Oliver Phillips, the latter a
soldier of the Revolution. To Mr. and Mrs.
Copeland were born children as follows: (1)
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Lida Wade, born May 7, 18G6, is unmarried
and living at home. (2) Arthur Davis, born
April 4, 1869, was educated in the public and
high schools of West Bridgewater, after which
he entered the Massachusetts Agricultural Col-
lege at Amherst, from which he was graduated
in 1889. He was for several years engaged in
the florist business, and later in the hay, grain
and feed business in Brockton, and died in
Forest Hills, Mass., at Dr. Emerson's private
hospital, Sept. 3, 1907. For several years prior
to his death he was a trustee and treasurer of
Howard Seminary, of West Bridgewater. He
was a member of the various Masonic bodies,
holding membership in Paul Revere Lodge, A.
F. & A. M.; Satucket Chapter, R. A. M.; and
Bay State Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Brockton. He was also a member of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and held mem-
bership in the Commercial Club, of Brockton,
and in the West Bridgewater Grange, No. 156,
Patrons of Husbandry. He married July 6,
1898, Jessie Janet Lothrop, daughter of Edwin
H. Lothrop, of West Bridgewater, and they
had a son, Dwight Lothrop Copeland, born
Aug. 16, 1899.
(VII) Heman Copeland, the youngest son
of the late Francis and Judith Washburn
(Kingman) Copeland, was bom Dec. 30, 1843,
in that part of West Bridgewater which has
since become a part of the city of Brockton,
Mass., in the house which adjoins the old
Copeland homestead, the latter now occupied
by his brother, Davis Copeland. He acquired
his educational training in the district schools,
later attending Hunt's Academy at North
Bridgewater and also the State normal school
at Bridgewater. After completing the course
at the State normal he engaged in teaching
school for several terms, both in Duxbury and
in his native town. Having been reared on
the farm he naturally drifted toward agricul-
tural pursuits, and after teaching school for
several terms he in 1868 purchased the Nahum
Snell farm, of about fifty-five acres, better
known as the Brooks farm, near his old home-
stead, later purchasing the Molbry Ripley
farm, of about twenty-six acres, near by. Upon
this land Mr. Copeland engaged extensively in
market gardening, greatly improving the same,
which became recognized as one of the most
iip-to-date market gardens in this section of
the State. His health failing, Mr. Copeland
eventually sold this property, and shortly
thereafter, in July, 1886, removed to Cali-
fornia, remaining in Riverside a few months
and going to San Diego in November, 1886.
Soon after settling in California his health
showed improvement. Mr. Copeland then en-
gaged in fruit growing, at his death having
about seventy acres of land, devoted to the
growing of lemons, at Chula Vista. Being
naturally adapted to this industry through his
many years' experience in market gardening
in the East, he had fruit growing developed to
a science. He raised oranges, citrons, grape
fruit and lemons, but devoted the greater part
of his endeavors to the lemon industry, his
lemon orchards being recognized as the finest
and most productive in that section of Cali-
fornia. Mr. Copeland continued thus engaged
until July, 1894, when he became horticul-
tural superintendent for the San Diego Land
and Town Company, a corporation which
owns and operates thousands of acres of land.
In this capacity he had charge of the orchards
of this concern, covering an area of over
twelve hundred acres and having under his
supervision about one hundred men. After
filling this position with pronounced efficiency
for a period covering nearly thirteen years his
health again became impaired, and he was
compelled to relinquish the active management
of this corporation's affairs, at which time he
was made advisory superintendent of this same
corporation, a position he occupied until about
a year prior to his death, when he retired from
active business cares.
Mr. Copeland's thorough knowledge of fruit
culture caused him to be recognized as a lead-
ing authority on that subject and he was con-
sulted on all matters of citrus fruit culture
by growers in all parts of southern California,
and as advisory member of the State Board
of Horticultural Commissioners did valuable
work for the citrus fruit industry. Among
his friends and admirers were practically all
the prominent San Diegans of long residence,
and one of the directors of the Chamber of
Commerce of San Diego county said of him
at the time of his death, "In the death of
Heman Copeland San Diego has sustained a
great loss. Besides being recognized as one
of the greatest authorities on lemon culture,
Mr. Copeland was also a great optimist, and
preached San Diego county and its future
wherever he went. He had especial faith in
the lemon industry and inspired many others
with it. Mr. Copeland was in every respect
a model citizen and was abreast of the times
in everything pertaining to the public wel-
fare, being a leader in business, political apd
public afilairs of the county. He was one of
thife most genuinely kind-hearted and charitable
men I ever met."
Fraternally Mr. Copeland was a prominent
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Mason, of high rank. He first became a mem-
ber of the organization in Brockton, where he
joined Paul Revere Lodge in 1868, and after
removing to California transferred his mem-
bership to South West Lodge, No. 383, A. F.
& A. M., of National City. He was also a
member of San Diego Commandery, No. 25,
Knights Templar, of San Diego, and of Con-
stans Lodge of Perfection, No. 8, and the
other bodies of the order in San Diego, attain-
ing the thirty-second degree. He was also a
member of Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. 0. N.
M. S., of Los Angeles, being an active and
prominent member of all these organizations.
Mr. Copeland was a consistent member of
the Christian Science Church, of San Diego,
of which his wife is also a member, and to
which they have given a liberal support. In
politics he was an advocate of Democratic
principles, but during the silver agitation, in
1896, he did not favor the free coinage of sil-
ver, and thereafter became independent in his
political views, and although he was always
deeply interested in public affairs he never
aspired to public office, preferring to give his
undivided attention to his business affairs.
On April 12, 1866, Mr. Copeland was
united in marriage to Caroline A. Parker,
daughter of Nathaniel D. and Mary Ann (Dex-
ter) Parker, of Mattapoisett, Mass., and a de-
scendant of historic old New England ances-
try. Mrs. Copeland survives her husband,'
making her home in Chula Vista, Cal. They
had no cliildren.
Mr. Copeland passed away at his home in
Chula Vista, Cal., July 26, 1909, in the sixty-
sixth year of his age, and at the time of his
death various organizations with which he had
been prominently identified adopted resolutions
of respect on his demise, among which were
the following:
Whereas, it has pleased our Heavenly Father to
take to Himself the soul of our respected friend,
Heman Copeland, chairman of the board of horticul-
tural commissioners, who for so many years success-
fully devoted his energies and ability to horticulture
in this county, and during our darkest days never
lost faith in the great future awaiting persistent
ranchers here, and who, as advisory horticultural
commissioner so faithfully performed his duties, and
WiTEREAS, we look upon his loss as one of the
greatest that ever befell our county, therefore be it*
Resolved, that we, the supervisors of San Diego
county, extend to the widow and relatives of the
deceased our heartfelt sympathy with them, in this,
their bereavement, and furthermore be it
Resolved, that a copy of this preamble and resolu-
tion be sent to the widow and spread upon the minutes
of this meeting.
The Chamber of Commerce of San Diego County.
San Diego, Cal., August 12, 1909.
Mrs. Caroline Copeland,
Chula Vista, California.
Dear Madam: I am instructed by the Board of
Directors of the Chamber of Commerce of San Diego
County to convey to you their sincere regret over the
loss of your husband.
Mr. Copeland was recognized by the Chamber of
Commerce as one of the representative men of South-
ern California. His faith in the ultimate greatness
of this section never wavered, and while he did not
survive to see the fruition of his hopes yet his life
was spared to witness the beginning of the great
things he saw and prophesied for the future.
Southern California and San Diego County in
particular has sustained a great loss in the death
of your husband. He is missed from our councils and
is mourned by us, for we have lost not only a trust-
worthy adviser, but a firm and steadfast friend.
With renewed assurance of our sympathy, I beg
to remain,
Sincerely yours,
[Signed] John S. Mms,
Secretary.
Asylum of
, San Diego Commandery, No. 25,
Knights Templar.
San Diego, Cal., August 6th, 1909.
At stated Assembly of San Diego Commandery,
No. 25, Knights Templar, held at its Asylum on Au-
gust 3d, 1909, the death of Sir Heman Copeland, on
July 26th, 1909, was announced;
Whereupon a committee of three was appointed
to voice the sentiments of the Commandery on this
sad event, who reported the follo^ving resolutions: —
Resolved, That in the death of Sir Heman Cope-
land this Commandery has lost a faithful, worthy and
respected member, whose absence will be regretted
as the years go by;
That to his widow, C. A. Copeland, and family is
extended our sincere sympathy and regret and wth
her and them we will join in proper service which
may be rendered to better bear this bereavement, ever
trusting in the great love of the Nazarene, our Guide
and Leader in the true path to go and do ;
Further, that a copy hereof be spread upon the
records and an attested copy be forwarded to his
widow.
George Bubnham,
William Kettneb,
George Mifflin Dannals,
Committee.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto attached the
seal and my signature, the day and date above writ-
ten.
[Signed] Jno. P. Bubt,
[SE-^] Recorder.
BENT (Taunton family). For some fifty
years there has resided at Taunton a branch of
the ancient Sudbury-Milton (Massachusetts)
Bent family, one established there approxi-
mately two hundred and seventy-one years ago.
Reference is made to the family of the present
William H. Bent, Esq., of that city, who for
quite half a century has been continuously iden-
tified with what is now the Mason Machine
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Works and much of the time officially, and as
well is, as he has long been, one of the substan-
tial men and useful citizens of Taunton, serving
his community in a number of public official
capacities. His son, Arthur Cleveland Bent, a
graduate of Harvard and now general manager
of the Mason Machine Works, has served his
city as alderman; another son, Frederick Hen-
dee Bent, after his graduation from Harvard,
in 1889, entered the Mason Macliine Works,
and died in 1897.
(I) John Bent, a native of England, born
in the parish of Penton-Grafton, in the County
of Hants, some seventy miles southwest of Lon-
don, sailed from Southampton, England, in
1638, and became one of the first settlers of
Sudbury, Mass. Mr. Bent was baptized Nov.
20, 1596, in the parish of Waybill. He was
the son of Eobert Bent and grandson of John
Bent. The Christian name of the wife of Mr.
Bent was Martha, and five of their seven chil-
dren were bom in England, the other two
in Sudbury. Their children were: Eobert,
baptized Jan. 10, 1624-25; William, baptized
Oct. 24, 1626; Peter, baptized April 14, 1629;
Agnes, born about' 1630; John, born about
1635; Joseph, born May 16, 1641; and Martha,
born about 1643.
The house lot of Mr. Bent, which comprised
some six acres, was about a quarter of a mile
from Wayland Center, and upon it he lived,
a farmer, until his death, Sept. 27, 1672, when
aged nearly seventy-six years.
(II) Joseph Bent, born May 16, 1641, in
Sudbury, Mass., married June 30, 1666, Eliza-
beth, daughter of John Bourne, of Marshfield,
and moved thither, but returned to Sudbury be-
fore 1671, and was killed accidentally in the
summer of 1675 by a pistol shot fired by his
brother Peter. While at Marshfield he was con-
stable in 1669. Five of his six children were liv-
ing in 1686, though the names of his two
daughters are unknown. The children of Jos-
eph and Elizabeth whose names are known, the
youngest two being born in Sudbury, were :
Joseph, born Oct. 11, 1667; Experience; Eliza-
beth, born in 1673 ; and Joseph (2), bom March
5, 1675.
(III) Joseph Bent (2), bom March 5, 1675,
married Oct. 27, 1698, Eachel, daughter of
Jonathan Fuller, of Dedham: Mr. Bent was
brought up in Marshfield by his grandfather,
John Bourne. He was a blacksmith, and after
his marriage lived in Milton, Mass., where he
died March 31, 1728, aged fifty-three years.
His wife died July 5, 1725, aged fifty-one.
Their children were: Mary, bom Jan. 21,
1700; Joseph, born Sept. 26, 1701; John, born
Oct. 15, 1703; Eachel, born Aug. 21, 1705;
Elizabeth, born Jan. 13, 1708; Sarah, born
April 13, 1710; Ebenezer, born April 23, 1712;
Experience, born Oct. 12, 1714; and Thankful,
born July 5, 1716.
(IV) Ebenezer Bent, born April 23, 1712,
married Jan. 9, 1735, Deborah, daughter of
Jonathan Fairbanks, of Dedham, Mass. Mr.
Bent was a yeoman of Milton, Mass., where he
died Feb. 15, 1786, aged seventy-three. His
widow died Aug. 17, 1798, at Quincy, Mass.,
aged eighty-four. Their children, all born in
Milton, Mass., were: Eleanor, born Sept. 28,
1735; Ebenezer, Aug. 22, 1737; Samuel, March
1, 1739; Nedabiah, Jan. 21, 1742; Mary, Feb.
1, 1744; Jolin, July 10, 1746; Deborah, July
8, 1748; Sarah, March 24, 1751; Elizabeth,
April 13, 1754.
(V) Jolin Bent, born July 10, 1746, married
Dec. 11, 1769, Hannah Collar of Dedham,
Mass., and lived in Milton. Among their chil-
dren was a son Josiah.
(VI) Josiah Bent, son of John, married
Susannah Tucker. They lived in Milton, where
Mr. Bent probably built what is characterized
as the old Bent house. It was in this house
that he began on a small scale, with one oven
only at first, the baking business which through
the century has been popularly known as Bent's
cracker bakery. It is said that he made the
first water crackers in this country, and these
long after his day were continued to be made
by hand and the excellent reputation he made
from them maintained. He continued the busi-
ness until 1830. Among his children were
Josiah and Nathaniel Tucker, both of whom
became liberally educated and were successful
in the learned professions.
(VII) Eev. Josiah Bent (2) was born at
Milton, Mass., and in due time prepared for
college. He was graduated from Harvard with
the class of 1822. He then studied theology
at Princeton and devoted his life to the Chris-
tian ministry. He settled at Weymouth, Mass.,
where he was ordained pastor of the First
Church. In 1834 he became pastor of the
church at Falmouth, Mass. From the Fal-
mouth charge he was dismissed in 1837 to be-
come pastor of the church at Amherst, where
his death occurred Nov. 19, 1839. Eev. Mr.
Bent married Pauline Eich.
. (VII) Eev. Nathaniel Tucker Bent, son of
Josiah and Susannah (Tucker) Bent, and
brother of Eev. Josiah, was bom July 31, 1810,
in Milton, Mass. He began his preparatory
studies for admission to college under the in-
struction of his brother Rev. Josiah Bent, of
Weymouth, Mass., who had graduated at Har-
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vard College in 1832, and completed them at
Phillips Academy in Andover. He entered
Harvard and held a distinguished rank in col-
lege, and was graduated with high honors with
the class of 1831. After leaving college young
Bent began the study of divinity at the Episco-
pal Theological Seminary in New York and
finished his studies under the instruction of
Bishop Alexander Viets Griswold, at Salem.
He was ordained at Salem, and was afterward
instituted as rector over the following churches :
Grace Church, in New Bedford, where he re-
mained five years: St. John's, in Charlestown,
two years ; St. Thomas's, in Taunton, five j'ears ;
St. John's, in Bangor, Maine, two and a half
years ; All Saints', in Worcester, two and a half
years; and Grace Church, again, in New Bed-
ford, a few months. He retired from the min-
istry in 1853, and removed to Worcester, Mass.,
where he taught a private school for yoimg
ladies, which he continued until his death.
On June 18, 1834, Rev. Mr. Bent was mar-
ried to Catherine E. D. Metcalf, eldest daugh-
ter of Col. Eliab W. Metcalf, of Cambridge,
and had four children by birth and one by
adoption ; three of whom, including the adopted
one, survived the father.
"Mr. Bent was a man of rare abilities, and,
when engaged in the active duties of the min-
istry, was very popular and efficient as rector.
Much might be said truly in praise of his
fidelity to all the details of parochial duty, the
interest he took in promoting musical taste
in its sacred department, his zeal in missionary
enterprises, and the genial flow which he mani-
fested in social life. Not a few of his former
parishioners and friends will long cherish a
most kindly remembrance of him as a beloved
and respected pastor." He died Nov. 4, 1856,
at his home in Worcester, Mass., aged forty-
six years.
(VIII) William H. Bent, son of Rev. Na-
thaniel T. and Catherine E. D. (Metcalf) Bent,
was born Jan. 2, 1839, in Cambridge, Mass.
He was educated in private and public schools
and fitted for civil engineering. When he was
seventeen years old (in 1856) he entered the
extensive machinery works of William Mason,
Taunton, and he has been connected with them
ever since except for a short time after the
panic of 1857, when that business was tempo-
rarily suspended. Returning in 1859, he grad-
ually worked up to the position of chief ex-
ecutive officer of the works, assuming such po-
sition at the death of Mr. Mason, in May, 1883.
In 1873, when the business was incorporated
under the name of the Mason Machine Works,
he became treasurer of the corporation, which
office he has held uninterruptedly until the
present time. The corporation employs in good
times about one thousand men, chiefly in build-
ing cotton machinery. Mr. Bent has been and
still is connected with numerous other large
interests. He was a director of the Corliss
Steam Engine Company, of Providence, R. I.;
director of the Nemasket Mills, Taunton; has
been for many years and now is director of the
Boston Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance
Company; director of the Corr Manufacturing
Company, of Taunton; director of the Ma-
chinists' iSTational Bank of Taunton; president
of the Liberty Square Warehouse Company of
Boston. He has served as an alderman of
Taunton for two terms (1877 and 1878) and
was chairman of the board of commissioners of
the Sinking Fund of the city for twenty years.
Although repeatedly sought he has declined
political offices and appointments other than
municipal, among them that of member of
the special commission on the unemployed, cre-
ated by the Legislature of 1894, to which he
was appointed by Governor Greenhalge. In
politics he is a Republican. He was a delegate
to the Republican National Convention of 1888,
and is a defender of protection, a frequent
contributor to the press in its interests, was
president of the Home Market Club of Boston
for three years, and president of the Arkwright
Club, of Boston, for three years. In religious
faith he is an Episcopalian, and is a prominent
lay member of the church organization. He is-
a delegate to the diocesan convention of the
Episcopal Church of Massachusetts, was,a mem-
ber of the committee of fifteen appointed by
Bishop Laurence in 1894 to report a plan for
the division of the diocese, a member of the
Episcopalian Club of Massachusetts, and senior
warden of St. Thomas's Episcopal Church,
Taunton, for many years. He belongs to the
Union Club of Boston.
On June 14, 1865, Mr. Bent was married
to Harriet F. Hendee, daughter of Charles
J. Hendee, of Boston. They had three sons,
Arthur Cleveland, Frederick Hendee and
Charles (died in infancy). The two sons who
lived to maturity were both graduated from
Harvard University in 1889. Mrs. Bent died
in 1873, and Mr. Bent married (second) Jan.
29, 1885, Sarah E. Chesbrough, daughter of
Lewis R. Chesbrough, of New York.
Metcalf. The Metcalf family to which Mr.
Bent belongs through the maternal line is
descended from Michael Metcalf, who was born
in Tatterford, County of Norfolk, England, in
1586. He followed the occupation of weaver
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in the city of Norwich, that county. His wife
Sarah was born June 17, 1593, in the adjoin-
ing town of Waynham, where they were mar-
ried Oct. 13, 1616. To escape religious perse-
cution he took passage from Yarmouth to New
England April 15, 1637. He arrived "three
days before midsummer," and was admitted
a townsman at Dedham July 14, 1637.
Michael Metcalf, third child of Michael and
Sarah, was born Aug. 29, 1620. He married
April 2, 1644, Mary Fairbanks, and died Dec.
24, 1654.
Eleazer Metcalf, fifth child of Michael and
Mary, was born March 20, 1653. He married
April 9, 1684, Melatia Fisher.
Michael Metcalf, second child of Eleazer and
Melatia, was born May 21, 1687, and married
Abiel Colburn.
Pelatiah Metcalf, first child of Michael and
Abiel, married Hepzibah Mann. He died April
1, 1770, and she died Oct. 11, 1773.
Thomas Metcalf, eighth child of Pelatiah
and Hepzibah, born Aug. 13, 1749, married
Jan. 25, 1776, Jemima Ray, who was born Jan.
8, 1756. Thomas Metcalf, with his older
brother, Silas, built the hip-roofed house which
formerly stood on the farm in West Wrentham
in the year 1797. They occupied the house,
and carried on the farm in partnership for
several years, until Silas's son Lewis took his
father's share, when the farm was divided.
When a young man he got "the old elm," which
now stands by the roadside, in a swamp, brought
it on his back and set it out. He died Oct.
30, 1832, and his wife in May, 1830.
Eliab Wight Metcalf, third child of Thomas
and Jemima, born Jan. 20, 1781, married May
7, 1809, Lydia Stedman, who was bom Jan.
24, 1787. He learned the printer's trade of
Nathaniel Heaton in Wrentham, and about
1800 went to Boston, and soon after to work
at Cambridge for Deacon William Hilliard. He
was taken in as a partner after a short time,
finally became proprietor, and extended and
established the business which now forms so
important a part of the industry of Cambridge.
He sold out his interest in printing, and be-
came a partner with Eussell & Odiorne in
book publishing in Boston. He was a member
of the Legislature in 1835 ; was also a promi-
nent Freemason and militiaman. He died Nov.
27, 1835. His wife died Dec. 5, 1866. Their
children were: John Porter, born Feb. 3, 1810,
died June 13, 1818; Catherine E. D., born Dec.
7, 1811, married June 18, 1834, Nathaniel
Tucker Bent, an Episcopal clergyman (born at
Milton, Mass., July 31, 1810, died Nov. 4, 1856,
at Worcester), and she died Feb. 28, 1892;
Eliab Wight, born June 10, 1814, died Sept.
13, 1817; David Ray, born Aug. 28, 1816,
died Sept. 19, 1817; John Porter, bom Sept.
13, 1818, died Sept. 10, 1853; Lydia Stedman,
bom Aug. 28, 1820, died Jan. 14, 1859 ; Susan
Harrod was born Sept. 21, 1822; Eliab Wight
(2), born Dec. 4, 1824, died Aug., 19, 1835;
Harriet Augusta, born June 39, 1826, married
June 18, 1844, William Mason (born at Mystic,
Conn., Sept. 3, 1808, died May 31, 1883), and
they resided in Taunton, Mass., where he was
proprietor of a large manufactory of locomo-
tives and cotton machinery (she died Dec. 31,
1880); Ellen Maria was bom May 20, 1828;
a daughter, bom in November, 1830, died
young.
SEARS (Middleboro family). The names of
Sarres and Series have been represented in
Guernsey for several centuries, and are found
there to-day. Marblehead, Mass., where the
American ancestor of the Sears family resided
in 1638, was largely settled by people from the
islands- of Guernsey and Jersey. "There is a
popular belief that the family of Sears is of
Norman origin, and it is noticeable that in
the eastern parishes of London, and adjacent
villages, which contained many Huguenot,
Flemish and Walloon emigrants, the name of
Sears or Sares is common about 1600."
It is the purpose of this article to treat of
what may properly be styled the South Yar-
mouth-Middleboro branch of the old Yarmouth
Sears family. The head of the Middleboro
family was the late Barnabas Sears, a carpen-
ter and builder by trade and early occupation,
and later at Middleboro a dealer in lumber and
builders' supplies, succeeded by his son, the
present Henry W. Sears, Esq.; who has long
been one of the successful business men and
prominent citizens of his adopted town. The
latter gentleman descends in the ninth genera-
tion from Richard Sares (Sears), one of the
early comers to Plymouth, from whom his de-
scent is through Lieut. Silas Sears, Capt.
Joseph Sears, Barnabas Sears, Stephen Sears,
Stephen Sears (3), Barnabas (3) and Barnabas
Sears (3). These generations in the order
named and in detail follow.
(I) Richard Sears (name variously spelled,
in time taking the form of Sears) is of record
at Plymouth as early as March, 1632-33, when
taxed. He soon crossed over to Marblehead
and was there taxed in 1637. He removed to
Yarmouth, where he was a proprietor in 1638.
His name was on the list of those able to bear
arms in 1643. He became a freeman June 7,
1653. Commissioners on Indian affairs were
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appointed Oct. 26, 1647, to meet at his house, of certain iron-works Jan. 5, 1740, and died
He died in Yarmouth, and was burred there soon, 1740-41. His children were: Stephen;
Aug. 26, 1676. His widow Dorothy was buried Hannah; and Mary, born April 27, 1738, in
there March 19, 1678-79. It is not certain that Hardwick, Massachusetts.
she was his only wife, or the mother of all, (V) Stephen Sears, born about 1736, mar-
if any, of his children. His children were: ried in Yarmouth, Mass., Nov. 24, 1757, Lydia
Paul, born in 1637^38; Silas, possibly a twin Sears, who died March 8, 1792, in her fifty-
to Paul, as his age as given at his death by seventh year. He then married (intentions
Otis would indicate ; and Deborah, born in Sep- published Nov. 30, 1794) Martha Hale, of
tember, 1639. Sandwich, Mass., who died Jan. 25, 1838, aged
(II) Lieut. Silas Sears, born as indicated seventy-nine years. He served in the Revolu^
by age at time of his death in 1637-38, mar- tion as a private in Capt. Benjamin. Berry's
ried Anna Bursley, daughter of James Burs- (Harwich) company, Maj. Zenas Winslow's
ley, of Yarmouth. Both died at Yarmouth, regiment, service five days, on an alarm at Bed-
Mr. Sears Jan. 13, 1697-98, and Mrs. Sears ford and Falmouth, Sept. 7, 1718. He and
March 4, 1725-26. Lieutenant Sears lived in his wife Lydia were admitted to full com-
the East precinct of Yarmouth, which later be- munion in the Second Church, Yarmouth,
came Dennis. He was commissioned ensign March 20, 1774, and he was chosen deacon,
Oct. 28, 1681, and lieutenant July 7, 1682. He March 9, 1789. His children, all save the
was chosen representative to the General Court youngest born to the first wife, were: Barna-
at Plymouth, 1685-91, selectman, 1680-94, and has, born Oct. 7, 1758; Thankful, borii Oct.
juryman, 1680-82. The children of Silas Sears 15, 1760; Kezia, born Aug. 14, 1763; Stephen,
were: Silas, born in 1661; Richard (both born Oct. 2, 1765; Priscilla, born Aug. 13,
born in Yarmouth) ; Hannah, born in Decern- 1768; Lydia, born July 24, 1771; and Sophro-
ber, 1672, in Eastham; Joseph and Josiah, born nia, born in 1797 — all in Yarmouth, Massa-
about 1675 in Yarmouth; and Elizabeth and chusetts.
Dorothy, both born in Yarmouth. (VI) Stephen Sears (2), born Oct. 2, 1765,
(III) Capt. Joseph Sears, born about 1675 in Yarmouth, married Nov. 10, 1785, Sarah,
in Yarmouth, married there Sept. 19, 1700, daughter of David G. Gorham. She was ad-
Hannah Hall, of Yarmouth, and is designated mitted to the church in East Yarmouth, Jan.
as a yeoman of that town. He lived in the 28, 1787, and died in April, 1811. He then
East precinct, now Dennis, and was styled cap- remarried, his second wife dying in January,
tain. He died May 7, 1750, in the seventy-fifth 1825. He died in East Dennis, Mass., May 24,
year of his age, as per gravestone. His wife 1851, aged eighty-five years. His children, all
Hannah died July 28, 1753, in her seventy- born to the first wife, were: Elizabeth, born
third year, according to her gravestone. She Aug. 20; 1786; Priscilla, June 25, 1788; Bar-
was admitted to the church at Harwich March nabas, July 30, 1790; Lydia, Sept. 3, 1792;
21, 1708, and to the Second Church at Yar- David Gorham, Nov. 16, 1794; Almond, or
mouth Aug. 6, 1727. Their chiliren, all born Alfred, May 1, 1798; Stephen, March 16, 1800;
in Yarmouth, were: Priscilla, born July 1, and Stephen (2), July 5, 1804.
1701; Hannah, Dec. 10, 1703; Zachariah, April (VII) Barnabas Sears, born July 30, 1790,
22, 1706; Joseph, March 27, 1708; Stephen, in Dennis, Mass., married in Yarmouth, Mass.,
July 22, 1710; Roland, May 17, 1711; Barna- Dec. 12, 1815, Hannah, born there Nov. 13,
bas, April 5, 1714; Peter, May 20, 1716; 1792, daughter of Isaiah Crocker. Mr. Sears
Bethia, March 20, 1718; Silas, Feb. 11, 1719- died in South Yarmouth, Mass., July 17, 1875,
20; and Thankful, April 11, 1723. aged eighty-five, and was buried in the Quaker
(IV) Barnabas Sears, born April 5, 1714, cemetery. His wife died Jan. 7, 1879, aged
in Yarmouth, Mass., married in Rochester, eighty-six years, two months. Their children,
Mass., Sept. 25, 1732, Thankful, born in Har- all born in South Yarmouth, were: John
wich, Mass., Oct. 6, 1714, daughter of John Kelly, born Sept. 11, 1816, who married at
and Mercy (Watson) Freeman, of Rochester. Nantucket, Mass., Sarah Burdett; Barnabas,
Mr. Sears was a bloomer, or iron forger, and born Sept. 14, 1818;' Stephen, born July 15,
probably an associate in business with his 1822; Seth, born Sept. 27, 1825, who died July
brother Roland. He removed from Rddrtster 17, 1847; Elizabeth, born Nov. 18, 1828, who
to Hardwick before the birth of his daughter married Nov. 30, 1851, Dr. John Stetson, of
Mary in 1738, as his daughter Hannah was Abington, Mass. ; and David, born July 6,
born there. From Hardwick he removed to 1832, the only survivor of this family, and
Brookfield, where he purchased an eighth part now living at South Yarmouth.
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(VIII) Barnabas Sears (2), born Sept. 14,
1818, in South Yarmouth, Mass., married in
Yarmouth, Nov. 36, 1840, Ruth H., born Jan.
28, 1806, daughter of Rev. Simeon and Char-
lotte Crowell. She died Oct. 31, 1851, in
South Yarmouth, Mass., and he married (sec-
ond) in Brewster, Mass., Oct. 18, 1852, Deb-
orah Manter Clark, born Oct. 9, 1832,
daughter of Capt. William and Lydia Clark,
of Brewster, Mass. She died April 38, 1885,
in Middleboro, Mass., and he married (third)
May 2, 1886, Mrs. Susan H. Doane, of Sonier-
ville, Mass., now deceased.
Barnabas Sears was a carpenter and builder
of the town of South Yarmouth, being so occu-
pied and residing there until 1874, when he
removed to Middleboro, where, associated with
his brother, John K. Sears, under the firm
name of J. K. & B. Sears, he engaged in the
lumber and hardware business, and they so
managed their business affairs as to be highly
successful. The firm of J. K. & B. Sears was
first engaged in the lumber business in South
Yarmouth, where they became established in
1849, carrying it on until 1869, when the busi-
ness was removed to Hyannis, Mass., where it
is still being conducted under the same firm
name, together with the business at Middle-
boro. Mr. Sears, besides his residence at Mid-
dleboro, maintained a summer home in South
Yarmouth, the old Crowell homestead. He
retired from active business in 1888, and there-
after resided at his home in South Yarmouth,
where he died Aug. 30, 1894, in his seventy-
sixth year, an esteemed and respected citizen
and a prosperous and successful business man.
He was buried at South Yarmouth. He was
a member of the Central Congregational
Church, of Middleboro, and politically was a
Republican. His children born to his wife
Ruth were: Henry, born June 24, 1842, died
Feb. 8, 1843;. John, born May 29, 1845, died
Sept. 12th, of that same year; John K., born
Sept. 16, 1846, died July 29, 1847; Simeon
Crowell, bom Oct. 16, 1847, died March 29,
1864, of injuries, having fallen from aloft, off
the west coast of South America, March 17th,
while on passage from Rio Janeiro to San
Francisco, in the ship "Fleetwing." The chil-
dren born to Mr. Sears by his wife Deborah
were: Isaiah Clark, born Sept. 11, 1853, re-
sides at Hyannis, being in the lumber business
in partnership with his brother Henry W.
Sears; Henry William was born April 24,
1859; Etta Frances, born Feb. 26, 1866, mar-
ried Walter H. Doane, and they reside in Port-
land, Oregon.
(IX) Heney W. Sears, son of Barnabas
and Deborah, was born April 24, 1859, in
South Yarmouth, Mass. He acquired his edu-
cation in main in the comm,on schools of his
native town, furthering his preparation for
business with a three months' course of study
at Comer's commercial college in Boston. He
began his business career as a clerk in a gro-
cery store at the age of fifteen, remaining so
occupied for some six months. At the age
of sixteen, in 1875, he entered the establish-
ment of his father and uncle, at Middleboro,
J. K. & B. Sears, and some half dozen years
later, Jan. 1, 1882, was taken into the firm,
the style of which was then changed to the one
it has ever since borne, that of J. K. & B. Sears
& Co. As the father advanced in years the
management fell to the son, the father practi-
cally retiring, and on the father's death the
son assumed control and has since conducted
it with that perseverance, energy and good
management that had been shown by the father.
The business has steadily grown under the direc-
tion of the son until it is one of the most ex-
tensive in its line of any in the Middleboro
section of Massachusetts. At the establishment
is kept a full line of lumber, doors, sashes,
blinds, hardware, paints and builders' supplies
of all kinds.
The political aSiliations of Mr. Sears are
with the Republican party, in whose councils
he has been active, zealous and prominent. He
lias been a member of the town committee of
his party. He has proved himself a valuable
citizen, a man of worth to the community. He
has long been a stanch advocate of total absti-
nence, and a member of the Sons of Temper-
ance. His religious faith is that of the Con-
gregational denomination, and he has long been
an active and zealous member of the church of
that denomination at Middleboro, serving it as
clerk and deacon. He has also served as presi-
dent of the Christian Endeavor Society and
has taken an interest in the work of the Sun-
day school of the church; has been active
in the Y. M. C. A., and was president of same
for several years.
On Dec. 5, 1883, Mr. Sears was married
to Martha S., daughter of James M. Pickens, of
Middleboro, Mass. Two children have blessed
the marriage: (1) Henry W., born Jan. 11,
1888, in Middleboro, was educated in district
and high schools in Middleboro, and in the
School of Technology in Worcester, remaining
in the latter two years. He is now engaged
in business with his father. (2) Mabel B.,
born April 20, 1892, was graduated from the
Middleboro high school in 1909. Mrs. Sears
is a member of the Cabot Club, of Middleboro.
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She is a descendant of Tliomas Pickens, the first
of that name in New England, her lineage be-
ing as follows:
(I) Thomas Pickens, according to a letter of
his grandson, John Pickens, of New Bedford,
bearing date of Jan. 6, 1807, with his wife
Margaret (Steel) and their children, Jane,
Andrew and James, the latter two twins and
about two years of age, came to America about
1717, landing, after a rough and tedious voy-
age of eleven weeks, at Boston. The family
was for a time at Milton, thence went to Free-
town, and later settled in the southwest part
of Middleboro, on land which for generations
was occupied by their descendants. Two sons
and two daughters were born to them after
their arrival in New England, namely : Martha,
John, Margaret and Thomas. The Milton
Church records show that "Thomas and Martha,
twins, children of Neighbour Thomas Pickens,
were baptized June 11, 1721." The family
came from BallyguUy, near Coleraine, in the
northern part of Ireland. Thomas Pickens first
acquired land in the Middleboros by deed Dec.
26, 1732, from Barnabas Eaton. His name
appears as one of the original members of the
Lakeville Congregational Church formed Oct.
12, 1725.
(II) Andrew Pickens, born about 1715, in
Coleraine, Ireland, came to New England with
the family. On Nov. 19, 1741, he married
Elizabeth Eeed, of Freetown. Mr. Pickens was
a farmer, and lived on the land owned by and
in the house built by his father. He died in
Middleboro March 29, 1795, in the seventy-
ninth year of his age. His wife died in Mid-
dleboro April 4, 1795, in her eighty-second
year. Their children were: John, born Feb.
27, 1743; Andrew, Jr., July 3, 1744; Phebe,
Nov. 4, 1745; James, March 17, 1747; Sarah,
Nov. 18, 1748; Thomas, Nov. 3, 1750; Samuel,
May 4, 1752; Eleazer, May 27, 1754; Martha,
Feb. 6, 1756; Elizabeth, March 21, 1757; Ben-
jamin, May 10, 1760.
(III) Samuel Pickens, bom May 4, 1752,
married Matilda, daughter of Ebenezer Briggs,
who served in the Revolutionary war, being a
member of Capt. Amos Washburn's company,
which marched on two alarms at Dartmouth in
1778; also a member of Capt. Jonah Wash-
burn's company, which marched to Rhode
Island on an alarm in 1780. The' children born
to Samuel and Matilda were : Stephen Briggs,
born Oct. 5, 1782; James, Oct. 17, 1784; and
Ebenezer, Oct. 6, 1787.
Samuel Pickens, the father of this family,
was also a Revolutionary soldier, having been
a private and corporal in Capt. Job Peirce's
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company which, was on duty in Rhode Island
in 1777, during the Revolution; and also was
a private in Capt. Amos Washburn's company,
raised in Middleboro in 1778. He served as a
member of the Constitutional convention, Nov.
15, 1820.
(IV) Ebenezer Pickens, son of Samuel, born
Oct. 6, 1787, in that part of Middleboro which
became Lakeville, married Oct. 5, 1813, Mary
Bourne Thompson, born Nov. 4, 1792, a direct
descendant of John Tomson, one of the early
settlers of Plymouth and Middleboro, and his
wife Mary (Cooke), daughter of Francis
Cooke, of the "Mayflower," 1620, from which
her descent is through Jacob Thompson, Jacob
Thompson (2), Jacob Thompson (3), 'Benja-
min Thompson and his wife Mary (Bourne),
Benjamin, last named, being a soldier in the
Revolution.
Ebenezer Pickens was one of the well and
favorably known men who lived at the Four
Corners in Middleboro. He lived near his
birthplace until the year 1832, when he re-
moved his house to its present site near the
corner of Main and Courtland streets. He re-
sided there for twenty years, and in 1852 pur-
chased land on the southerly side of Main
street and built a commodious house. In 1822
Mr. Pickens was appointed a justice of the
peace, and in 1850 a trial justice, which office
he held until the time of his death. In con-
structing his house just alluded to Mr. Pickens
provided a room on the east side for an office
and courtroom. In 1847 he was elected county
commissioner and served nine years. While a
resident of Lakeville, and later, he with his
family attended church at the Green, and they
were seldom absent from services through sum-
mer's heat and winter's cold. On the formation
of the Central Congregational Church Mr.
Pickens was chosen one of the deacons, a. rela-
tion he sustained to the church until the time
of his death, which occurred May 8, 1868, when
he was aged eighty years. The children born
to Mr. Pickens and his wife were: Caroline
Matilda (born Dec. 26, 1814) and Andrew
Jackson and James Madison, twins (born June
5, 1818).
(V) James Madison Pickens was born in
that part of Middleboro which is now Lake-
ville, Mass., June 5, 1818, and there grew to
manhood. As a young man he was engaged
in business in New Bedford, but later he
started in business for himself, manufacturing
straw goods. He formed a partnership with
his twin brother, Andrew J., and William A.
King, purchasing the business of Ebenezer
Briggs, and they were the pioneer manufac-
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turers of straw goods in this section. He con-
tinued in the business until 1858, when he sold
out and engaged in the grocery business for
several years. He next became interested in
the real estate business, at which he continued
during the remainder of his active life. He
was a man of upright character and honorable
dealings. He was a consistent member of the
Central Congregational Church, and was active
in building it up in a successful way ; he was
connected with the building of the church edi-
fice, contributing over $1,000 in money, as well
as giving much of his time. He was for up-
ward of a quarter of a century deacon of the
church. A good Christian man in every sense
of the word, he left a name of which his chil-
dren are justly proud. He had a beautiful
tenor voice, and conducted singing schools in
different sections of the State for nearly half
a century. He died at his home on South
Main street, Middleboro, Feb. 16, 1899, after
a long and painful illness, and was buried in
Central cemetery.
Mr. Pickens married, June 5, 1851, Lucy
H. Potter, of North Brookfield, Mass., whose
grandfather, Capt. John Potter, was a Revolu-
tionary soldier, and four children were born to
them: (1) Lucy maTried Richard Cobb, and
resides at West Newton, Mass. (2) Laura mar-
ried E. F. Kingman, of Brockton, and she is
now a widow, residing in Riverside, Cal., of
which city Mr. Kingman was mayor at the
time of his death. (3) Mary B. married Amasa
R. Glidden, of Middleboro, where they reside.
(4) Martha S. married Henry W. Sears, of
Middleboro.
FRANK L. CARPENTER, treasurer of the
Davis Mills at Fall River, is. a member of one
of the oldest families in New England, being
a descendant in the ninth generation from Wil-
liam Carpenter, from whom we give the line
down to the present.
(I) William Carpenter, son of William Car-
penter, of London, was born in 1605, in Eng-
land, and there married Abigail. On coming
to America, he first settled in Wej'mouth, where
he became a freeman in 1640. He was a repre-
sentative from Weymouth in 1641 and 1643,
and from Rehoboth in 1645, having been ad-
mitted an inhabitant of the latter town in 1645.
He was also made a freeman in that same year.
From 1643 to 1649 he served as proprietors'
and town clerk. He died Feb. 7, 1659, in Reho-
both, Mass., his widow, Abigail, dying Feb. 22,
1687. Three of their seven children were born
in England, the next three in Weymouth, and
the youngest in Rehoboth ; they were : John,
born about 1628; William, about 1631; Joseph,,
about 1633; Hannah, April 3, 1640; Abiah and
Abigail (twins), April 9, 1643, and Samuel,
about 1644.
(II) Samuel Carpenter, born about 1644,.
married May 25, 1660, Sarah Readaway, of
Rehoboth. He was one who bought land in the
North Purchase, and also had land allotted ta
him in the division in 1671. He died Feb. 20,.
1682 or 1683, and his widow Sarah remarried.
He and Sarah had a family of ten children, all
born in Rehoboth, viz. : Samuel, Sept. 15,
1661; Sarah, Jan. 11, 1663-64; Abiah, Feb. 10,
1665-66; James, April 12, 1668; Jacob, Sept.
5, 1670; Jonathan, Dec. 11, 1672; Solomon,
Dec. 23, 1677; David, April 17, 1675; Zach-
ariah, July 1, 1680; and Abraham, Sept. 20,
1682.
(III) Abiah Carpenter, son of Samuel, was
born Feb. 10, 1665-66, married (first) May
30, 1690, Mehitable Read, who was born
in August, 1660, and died March 19, 1701-02.
He married (second) June 7, 1702, Sarah
Read, who died July 17, 1724. He married
(third) Mary Ormsby on July 16, 1726. Abiah
Carpenter was a farmer and wheelwright and
served as ensign in the militia. He died in
April, 1732. His children, all born in Reho-
both, were: Abiah, April 21, 1691; Thomas,.
Nov. 8, 1692; Mehitable, Nov. 15, 1694; Sam-
uel ; Sarah, 1696 ; Rachel, May 19, 1699 ; Peter,
April 22, 1701; Mary, March 4, 1704; and
Cornelius, Aug. 20, 1707.
(IV) Thomas Carpenter, son of Abiah, born
Nov. 8. 1692, married Jan. 17, 1720 or 1721,
Mary Barstow. He lived in Rehoboth, Mass.,
was a farmer and a deacon in the church. He
died May 3, 1779, in Rehoboth. She died April
28, 1783, aged seventy-eight years. Their chil-
dren, all born in Rehoboth, were : Mary, born
Sept. 22, 1723; Peter, Sept. 22, 1723 (married
Rachel Bullock and second Amy French^
widow) ; Rachel, April 14, 1731 (married John
Hunt); Thomas, Oct. 24,^733; Caleb, Sept.
21, 1736 (married Elizabeth Bullock).
(V) Capt. Thomas Carpenter (2), son of
Thomas, born Oct. 24, 1733, married Dec. 26,
1754, Elizabeth Moulton. He was a farmer in-
Rehoboth, Mass. He was elected deputy to
the General Court in 1775 ; was commissioned
colonel of Bristol (Mass.) militia Feb. 10, 1776.
He marched to New York under the command
of General Lincoln — dated Boston Nov. 28,
1776; he appears on a petition asking for a
new choice of officers — dated Rehoboth, June
26, 1778; autograph signatures. He served on
the Rhode Island expedition, July 24, 1778,
.served one month and nineteen days. Thomas'
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Carpenter, colonel, 1st Bristol regiment (dated
July 5, 1779), Brigadier General Godfrey's
brigade; served at Tiverton, July 26, 1780, for
seven days; served the second time at Tiverton,
Aug. 1, 1780, for nine days. Col. Thomas Car-
penter had 130 men fit for duty as by returns
of Gen. H. Parsons, of the Provincial army,
Nov. 3, 1776. He was promoted from a private
to colonel, and served in the Eevolutionary war.
He was made captain in a military company
in Bristol county, Oct. 7, 1774. On Feb. 1,
1775, he was sent from Rehoboth, chosen on a
committee to take into consideration the vote
of supplying several individuals of Boston and
other towns with lumber, etc., and every other
field equipage necessary to qualify them to take
the field in the spring. He was chosen County
committee April 12, 1775. On Jan. 2, 1775,
the town of Eehoboth chose Maj. Timothy
Walker and Capt. Thomas Carpenter delegates
to attend the Provincial Congress to be held
at Cambridge, Mass., on Feb. 1, 1776. Captain
Carpenter was also chosen a delegate from
Eehoboth to attend the Provincial Congress held
at Watertown, Mass., May 31, 1775. He with
others was ordered by the Provincial committee
in bringing up the Indians, June 23, 1775. On
June 28, 1775, he was one of the committee to
fix the pay of the soldiers and officers. On July
5, 1775, he was one of the committee to con-
sider some method to prevent conveyance of
intelligence to the enemy, and also to stop
supplies.
In September, 1776, a regiment was raised
in the town of Rehoboth and some of the ad-
joining towns, and marched under the com-
mand of Col. Thomas Carpenter, of Eehoboth,
to join the army of Washington at White Plains,
N. Y. They arrived there some time before the
battle, but were not in the action, being drawn
up under arms about four miles distant in
momentary expectation of orders to march to
the scene of battle. Previous to this battle
Colonel Carpenter's regiment had a slight skir-
mish with a small detachment of the British,
and three of his men were wounded. On Aug.
18, 1788, Col. Thomas Carpenter was ordered
with his regiment to march immediately to
Ehode Island, and there to do duty during the
campaign.
Col. Thomas Carpenter was in action on Long
Island Aug. 29, 1778, and was distinguished
for his activity and bravery. Several of the
soldiers belonging to Colonel Carpenter's regi-
ment, residents of Eehoboth, were killed.
Col. Thomas Carpenter was a large, portly
man. One of his granddaughters is the au-
thority that she made a whole suit of clothes
for one of hfer children out of one of the
Colonel's vests. He died April 26, 1807, at
Eehoboth. His wife died May 17, 1804. Their
children, all born in Eehoboth, were : Eliza-
beth, born Dec. 22, 1755, who married Pre-
served Abell ; Thomas, born March 6, 1758, who
married Cynthia Wheaton ; one not named, bom
Oct. 8, 1759; Sarah, born Oct. 10, 1760; Wil-
liam, born April 15, 1763; James, born Sept.
15, 1764; Stephen, born Nov. 5, 1765; James
(2), born Sept. 15, 1767, who married Lucy
Bliss; Eebecca, born Sept. 14, 1769, who mar-
ried (first) Samuel Bliss and (second) Thomas
Carpenter; Nathan, born June 17, 1772; Peter,
born Oct. 5, 1773, who married Nancy Bishop;
and Nathan (2), born Aug. 27, 1776.
(VI) Stephen Carpenter, son of Capt.,
Thomas, born Nov. 5, 1765, married in Janu-
ary, 1790, Hannah Wilmarth, and they were
farming people. Their children were : Han-
nah, born Oct. 22, 1791, who married Sylvester
Allen: Stephen, born Sept. 19, 1793; Maria,
born Sept. 2, 1796; William M., born April 5,
1798; Joseph Wilmarth, born Nov. 24, 1801,
who married Louisa Lewis, widow; Samuel
Bliss, born June 15, 1804, who married Sera-
phina A. Hix ; Ira Winsor, born May 19, 1807,
who married Mercy Ann Hall ; Abigail Whipple,
born July 28, 1810, who married James B.
Moulton ; and Francis Henry, born April 24,
1813. who married Betsey Perry.
(VII) Stephen Carpenter (2), born Sept.
19, 1793, grandfather of Frank L., resided in
that part of Tiverton now included in the city
limits of Fall Eiver and was engaged as a
tavernkeeper. He died Sept. 28, 1841. On.
Feb. 15, 1825, he married Mary P. Lawton,
and they had four children, as follows: (1)
William Moulton, born May 30, 1827, married
Eunice Walker Bishop, on May 20, 1851. She
was born Dec. 23, 1821, and died Nov. 3, 1889.
He was engaged in the dry goods business and
died April 4. 1868. (2) Joseph Wilmarth was
born June 28, 1828. (3) Stephen Henry, bom
Jan. 30, 1826, died June 28, 1827. (4) George
Washington, born Nov. 25, 1830, died Dec. 21,
1832.
(VIII) Joseph Wilmarth Carpenter was bom
June 28. 1828, in Tiverton (now Fall Eiver),
and when a young man learned the trade of
machine engraver of the cloth printing indus-
try. After a time he engaged in the dry goods
business in company with his brother William,
in Providence. They continued there until fire
destroyed their establishment, when Joseph W.
returned to Fall Eiver and engaged in the gro-
cery business, at the corner of Main and Rod-
man streets. Subsequently he was elected city
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messenger, part of the duties of which position
at that time was the renting of the city hall
for amusement purposes and also looking after
the markets in the basement. In 1873 he pur-
chased a farm in Berkley and resided there
for seven years. Returning to Fall River, he
was made sealer of weights and measures, hold-
ing that position for a succession of years, later
having charge of the care of the city hall. He
then engaged in the roll covering business,
which he followed until the infirmities of age
incapacitated him from further activities, and
he died Feb. 24, 1894. He was buried in Oak
Grove cemetery. Mr. Carpenter was a member
of the old Cascade hand fire company, serving
as clerk of the organization for many years.
On Nov. 10, 1853, Mr. C^arpenter married
Phebe Kershaw, who was born Feb. 13, 1831,
in Cheadle, England, daughter of James W.
and Mary R. (Barnes) Kershaw. Mrs. Carpen-
ter died April 20, 1895. They had children as
follows: (1) Joseph Wilmarth, born Sept. 4,
1855, married Anna Barney, and died in Wor-
cester, Mass., Oct. 30, 1899. He was a travel-
ing salesman. (2) Annie E., born Feb. 22,
1858, was for several years a teacher in the pub-
lic schools of Fall River. She is now the wife
of Moses F. Brierly and resides in Worcester,
Mass. (3) Mary A., born July 17, 1860, is a
teacher in the Robeson school, at Fall River.
(4) Edward M., born May 23, 1863, married
Alice Hayhurst and resides in Fall River. (5)
Frank L. was born Jan. 3, 1868.
(IX) Frank L. Carpenter was born in Fall
Eiver Jan. 3, 1868, and graduated from the
high school there in 1887. He then began to
learn the profession of architect, in the office of
Ichabod B. Burt, where he remained one year,
leaving there to become a clerk in the Durfee
Mills, and one year later he went to the Saga-
more Manufacturing Company as assistant
bookkeeper. He was there until 1892, when
he became bookkeeper for the Fall River Iron
Works Company, remaining with that concern
until Sept. 14, 1909, when he was chosen treas-
urer of the Davis Mills, succeeding the late
Arthur H. Mason. Mr. Carpenter's business
ability has been proved in his long connection
with the mills of this region, and he has the
confidence and respect of all his business asso-
ciates. He. is a member of the corporation of
both the Fall River Savings Bank and the
Union Savings Bank.
Mr. Carpenter is a member of the Arkwright
Club of Boston, the Fall River Cotton Manu-
facturing Association, the National Cotton
Manufacturers' Association (with headquarters
in New York), and socially of the Quequechan
Club. Fraternally he is a member of King
Philip Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of which he is
past master, and which he served two years as
treasurer; of Fall River Chapter, R. A. M.;
Fall River Council, R. & S. M,, of which he is
past thrice illustrious master; of Godfrey de
Bouillon Conimandery, Knights Templar, of
which he is past eminent commander; and is
also a member of the Massachusetts and Rhode
Island Association of Knights Templars Com-
manders. He is a charter member of Puritan
Lodge, No. 88, K. of P., and was master of
finance for several years. In politics -he is a
Republican.
Mr. Carpenter was married in Fall River
Sept. 20, 1893, to Annie P. Brightman, a native
of that place, daughter of Pardon M. and Rachel
D. (Pickering) Brightman, and they have one
daughter, Isabel, born July 22, 1899.
CRANE (Bridge water family). Through
the greater part of the nineteenth century there
resided at Bridgewater a branch of the early
New England Crane family, its representative
head being the late Hon. Joshua Eddy Crane,
himself one of the most active and useful citi-
zens of Bridgewater of his generation, promi-
nent in public life, etc., who reared several sons
who followed in his footsteps, and of an ancient
and honorable ancestry which, with his own
marriage, has given his posterity a New Eng-
land inheritance which they may contemplate
with just pride.
From the best information at hand it appears
that between the years 1635 and 1640 John,
Samuel and Jaspar Crane came to Massachu-
setts, John making a home in that part of Bos-
ton now Brookline, Samuel in Dorchester, and
Jaspar removing about 1639 to New Haven,
Conn. ; whether they are brothers or not is yet
an open question. John was in Boston as early
as Jan. 8, 1637, but must have died or returned
to England within a few years. The latter was
succeeded by Henry Crane, who was born about
1621, probably in England, and married
Tabitha, daughter of Stephen Kinsley; settled
in Braintree, and left a large line of descendants.
Without evidence to the contrary it may be
reasonably supposed that Samuel was the father
of this Henry. Samuel Crane is mentioned in
the Braintree records, 1640, as one of several
elected to administer town affairs, among them
Stephen Kinsley, this the first association in
these records of the names Kinsley and Crane.
In 1654 Stephen Kinsley (who was at Mount
Wollaston. Mass., in 1639) and his sons-in-law
Anthony Gulliver and Henry Crane were set-
tled on adjacent farms in that part of Dorches-
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645
ter which later was incorporated as Milton.
Henry Crane was in main a husbandman. He
was one of the selectmen of Milton in 1679,
1680 and 1681, and was one of the trustees of
the first meetinghouse built in the town. His
wife Tabitha died shortly after 1681, and he
married (second) about 1683 Elizabeth, who
survived him. His children were: Benjamin,
bom about 1656 ; Stephen, who married (first)
Mary Denison and (second) Comfort, widow of
Samuel Belcher, of Braintree; Henry; John,
born in 1658, in Dorchester; Elizabeth, born in
1663, who married (first) Eleazer Gilbert, of
Taunton, and (second) George Townsend, of
that same town; Ebenezer, born in 1665, who
married Mary Tolman ; Mary, born in 1666,
who married Samuel Hackett, of Taunton;
Mercy, born in 1668; Samuel, born in 1669;
and Anna C, born in 1687, who removed to
Taunton. Henry Crane died in Milton March
21, 1709.
It should have been stated ere this that,
according to Mr. Ellery Bicknell Crane, the
Cranes in England are classed among the fami-
lies belonging to the County of Suffolk. Though
numerous families bearing the name have been
found residents of other counties in Great Brit-
ain, it is among the records of Suffolk County
that we find delineated the long roll of aristo-
cratic land holders in a line of succession from
father to son covering a period of time marked
by hundreds of years. Here their estates are
to be found recorded which have been retained
in the family for nearly three hundred years.
It will be observed that some of the imme-
diate posterity of Henry Crane located in Taun-
ton, and the towns of Dighton, Berkley and
Norton also became the places of residence of
their descendants.
John Crane, bom in Dorchester, 30 : 11, 1658.
married Dec. 13, 1686, Hannah, daughter of
James and Hannah Leonard, of Taunton, and
there became a settler, but in 1698 had sold
his place in Taunton and with his brother Ben-
jamin in that year bought of the heirs of Jona-
than Briggs a farm of three hundred acres in
the South Purchase of Taunton, now Berkley,
which in a few years was divided in two portions
by the two brothers.
Benjamin Crane, the brother, was a member
of Captain Johnson's company in King Philip's
war and was severely wounded in the battle of
Narragansett Swamp, Dec. 19, 1675. His death
occurred Oct. 13, 1721. Many of the Crane
family of Berkley were his descendants.
John Crane died Aug. 5, 1716, and Hannah,
his wife, died Oct. 24, 1760. Tlieir children :
Henry, Gershom, Zipporah, Tabitha and John.
Gershom Crane, born Sept. 3, 1692, married
Feb. 27, 1716, Susanna Whitmarsh, daughter
of Samuel Whitmarsh, then of Dighton. It
was at his house that the first meeting of the
town of Berkley was held and of which he was
the moderator in 1735. He died June 23, 1787.
His ^vife, Susanna, died Sept. 11, 1770. Their
children were: Abiah, 1716; Abel, 1718;
Ebenezer, 1720; Hannah, 1722; Elisha, 1724;
Gershom, 1728 (died 1732) ; John, 1731; Ger-
shom, 1735; Jonathan, 1737.
John Crane married Eachel Terry and was
a resident of Norton, and his son, Eev. John
Crane, D. D., born 1756, was the minister of
Northbridge and died in 1836.
Jonathan Crane, another son of Gershom, was
graduated at Harvard College in 1762, married
Mary, daughter of Col. Josiah Edson, 1770, and
practiced his profession of medicine in Bridge-
water. His son, Daniel Crane, was graduated
at Brown University in 1796.
Elisha Crane, son of Gershom, born Dec. 25,
1724, married Thankful Axtell, daughter of
Daniel -Axtell, of Berkley, Jan. 15, 1774, and
lived at the home of Daniel Axtell, which was
established in 1710 in the town of Dighton, now
Berkley. Their children were: Betsey, born
1775, married Benjamin Hathaway, 1801 ;
Susannah, born 1776, married Christopher
Paull, 1802: Daniel, born 1777, died 1805;
Polly, born 1779, married Dean Burt, 1806;
Barzillai was born in 1783. Elisha Crane
died Nov. 20, 1807. Thankful (Axtell) Crane
died Jan. 22, 1832.
Barzillai Crane, born Feb. 24, 1783, married
Jan. 22, 1810, Lydia Eddy, daughter of Capt.
Joshua Eddy and his wife, Lydia (Paddock)
of Middleboro, and lived in Berkley. Their
children were: Charlotte Maria, 1811 (died
1818) ; Nancy A., 1812 (died 1818) ; Susanna
W., 1815 (married Samuel Breck) ; Elisha,
1817 (died 1843, a physician, unmarried) ;
Charlotte M., 1820 (died"l841) ; Joshua Eddy,
1823; Irene Lazell. 1826 (married Dr. Thomas
Nichols) : Lydia, 1829 (died 1833) ; Morton
Eddv. 1831 "(died 1857, unmarried). Lydia
(Eddy) Crane died Feb. 10, 1842. Barzillai
Crane married (second) in 1844 Eliza Tobey,
daughter of Apollos and Hannah (Crane)
Tobey, of Berkley. He died June 15, 1851.
Eliza (Tobey) Crane, born Oct. 29, 1801, died
Dec. 9, 1882.
Mrs. Lydia (Eddy) Crane, wife of Bar-
zillai, was born Dec. 23, 1787, the daughter
of .Toshua and Lydia (Paddock) Eddy, Joshua
Eddy being a direct descendant of Samuel Eddy,
who was the son of William Eddy, A. M., vicar
of St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, County of
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Kent, England, and liis wife Mary (Fosten).
Samuel Eddy came from Boxted, County of
Suffolk, England, to America in the ship
"Handmaid" in 1630, settling in Plymouth,
where he purchased property in 1631. From
this Samuel Eddy and his ^nfe Elizabeth the
descent of Lydia Eddy is through Obadiah and
his wife Bennet, Samuel (2) and his wife Mela-
tiah (Pratt), Zechariah iand his wife Mercy
(Morton), and Capt. Joshua Eddy and his wife
Lydia (Paddock).
Capt. Joshua Eddy saw much hard service
in the Revolution. He entered the service, en-
listing in 1775, in Captain Benson's company,
Colonel Cotton's regiment; was at Roxbury,
Mass., during the siege of Boston, and at the
battle of Breed's (Bunker) Hill. In 1776 he
was lieutenant in Colonel Marshall's regiment
and went to Castle island. He was in the re-
treat from Ticonderoga and was at Saratoga
at the surrender of Burgoyne. He then went
to New Jersey, was in winter quarters with
General Washington, and was at the battle of
Monmouth. After the close of the war he was
extensively engaged in various kinds of business.
He was a man of unusual energy. For many
years he was a deacon in the church of his
community. He died in 1833.
Joshua Eddy Crane, son of Barzillai and
Lydia (Eddy) Crane, was born July 9, 1823,
in the town of Berkley, Mass., and in both the
public and private schools of his native town
acquired his education. Desiring to enter busi-
ness he at sixteen years of age began preparation
for it in the office of a commission merchant in
New York City. Later, in 1844, he was at
Bridgewater %vith his uncle, Morton Eddy, who
retired from the firm in 1848. Thereafter
while in active business the concern was con-
ducted by Mr. Crane. A man of ability, good
judgment, one successful in the management
of his own business affairs, Mr. Crane was soon
found by his fellow citizens to possess the quali-
ties required in the same, and as a conservative
public man was often sought and long continued
in public official service. He cast his first vote
in 1844 for the candidates of the Liberty party,
having been present at the organization of that
party at Boston. He soon became active polit-
ically in local affairs. He was a delegate to
the Worcester convention, at which Judge
Charles Allen presided, and at which was or-
ganized the Republican party in Massachusetts.
For many years he was chairman of the Repub-
lican town committee of Bridgewater and also
a member of the State Republican committee.
In 1857 he was a representative for the town in
the General Court. On the breaking out of
the Civil war, in 1861, when party lines were
almost obliterated, he was chosen senator from
the South Plymouth district, and in the follow-
ing year was almost unanimously again elected
to that body, the Democrats making no nomi-
nation against him. While in the Senate he
had the honor of taking part in the election of
Ion. Charles Siimner to the United States Sen-
ate from Massachusetts. In the Senate he
served on the committees on Claims and on
Mercantile Affairs and Insurance. He was
town clerk of Bridgewater for several years,
from 1855 to 1858 inclusive, and in 1873 and
1874. For more than thirty years he was in
various capacities connected with the Plymouth
County Agricultural Society, and for a number
of years was treasurer and member of the board
of trustees of that society. On the occasion of
the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of
the society, Sept. 30, 1869, he delivered the
historical address. For a dozen and more years
he served as chairman of the board of trustees
of the State Workhouse at Bridgewater and for
twenty and more years was a trustee of the
Bridgewater Academy, and was active in the
erection of the present school building.
For upward of twenty-five years Mr. Crane
was a correspondent for the newspapers of
Bridgewater and vicinity, writing many sketches
of interest to those of antiquarian tastes. He
prepared the sketch of the town of Bridgewater
contained in the History of Plymouth county
published in 1884. His religious faith was that
of the Central Square Congregational Church
in Bridgewater, of which he was a member, and
he was chairman of the building committee at
the time of the erection of the present churcli
edifice.
On Jan. 9, 1849, Mr. Crane was married to
r>ucy Ann Reed, bom Sept. 25, 1825, daughter
of the late Quincy and Lucy (Loud) Reed, of
Weymouth, Mass., and their children were:
Joshua Eddy, 1850 ; Cliarles Reed, 1852 (mar-
ried Jane E. Keith) ; Lucy Reed, 1854 (died
1856) ; Morton Eddy, 1857 (of Washington,
D. C.) ; Henry Lovell, 1860; Anna Howe, 1862
(married Charles A. Drew, M. D.) ; Edward
Appleton, 1865 (died 1887). Joshua E. Crane
died in Bridgewater Aug. 5, 1888 ; Lucy Ann
(Reed) Crane died Sept. 24, 1898.
Quincy Reed, the father of Mrs. Crane, de'-
scended from William Reade, who settled in
WejTuouth in 1635, from whom his descent is
through Thomas Reed and his wife Sarah
(Bicknell) ; John Reed and his wife Sarah
(Whitmarsh"! : John Reed (2) and his wife
Marv (Bate) and Ezra Reed and his wife Mary
(Lovell).
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Joshua Eddy Cbane (2), son of Joshua
Eddy and Lucy Ann (Eeed) Crane, was born
•Oct. 1, 1850, in Bridgewater, Mass., and there
■educated in the public schools of the place and
at the Bridgewater Academy, then under tlie
instruction of Mr. Horace M. Willard. He
furthered his studies at Brown University, from
■which he was graduated in 1872. Mr. Crane
was preceptor of Bridgewater Academy, 1873-
75; principal of the English preparatory de-
partment of the Syrian Protestant College,
Beirut, Syria, 1876-79 ; subsequently was em-
ployed as a private tutor; and was in charge
•of the Latin classes of Albany Academy, Al-
hany, N. Y., until 1884, when he became
librarian of the Young Men's Association of
Albany. In 1887 he accepted the position of
•associate principal of the Portland Latin School
at Portland, Maine, but in 1890 resumed his
former position at the library, from which he
withdrew in 1892. He is at this time librarian
■of the Public Library of Taunton. He is an
officer of the Old Colony Historical Society
and of the Old Bridgewater Historical Society.
Mr. Crane married Jan. 1, 1884, Katharine
Perkins, daughter of Henry and Amelia (Sher-
man) Perkins, of Bridgewater.
Henry Lovell Crane, son of the late Joshua
Eddy Crane and his wife Lucy A. (Reed), was
"born Jan. 31, 1860, in Bridgewater, Mass. Here
in the public schools and Bridgewater Academy
he acquired his education. At the age of six-
teen he entered the mercantile store of his
father at Bridgewater and by close application,
and industry, under the father's oversight he be-
•came thoroughly versed in all that pertained to
•careful, painstaking, judicious business meth-
■ods. On the death of his father, in 1888, young
Crane associated with him in the continuance
•of the business Henry T. Burrill, under the firm
name of Crane & Burrill, a business partner-
ship that lasted through the remaining years
of the life of the junior member of the firm ;
and as a business house its standing was second
to none in Bridgewater.
■ As had been his father before him, Mr. Crane
■was greatly interested in the public affairs of
his native town, and as a good citizen when
called to public duty performed it to the best
of his ability and judgment, which always
meant to the satisfaction of his fellow citizens
and to-wnsmen. Elected town clerk in 1886 and
■treasurer in 1887, he was each year successively
reelected to these offices up to the time of his
■decease. Endowed with much natural ability,
sharpened by business experience and reading,
possessing pleasing and accommodating social
qualities, he won and held the esteem and re-
spect of his community. He was well fitted for
that social and useful citizenship he filled. He
was an active and intelligent member of the
Masonic fraternity; was past master of Fellow-
ship Lodge, of Bridgewater, past high priest oi
Harmony Chapter, and a member of Bay State
Commandery, at Brockton, Mass. He was also
a member of Pioneer Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., of
Bridgewater, and held the rank in it of noble
grand.
In 1884_Mr. Crane was married to Lizzie A.
Cole, daughter of Mr. Charles H. Cole, of
Brockton, Mass. His death occurred March
16, 1905.
HENRY PERKINS was a well-known iron
manufacturer and biisiness man of Bridgewater.
His ancestral line is traced from Abraham Per-
kins, one of the first settlers of Hampton, N.
H., who was nlade a freeman May 13, 1640.
He was a man of good education and was much
employed in the service of the town. He died
Aug. 31, 1683, at the age of seventy-two. His
widow, Mary, died May 29, 1706, at the age of
eighty-eight. The will of Abraham Perkins,
dated Aug. 22, 1683, and probated Sept. 18,
1683, contains the names of his wife and sons
Jonathan, Humphrey, James, Luke and David.
To the last two were given five shillings each, as
they had already received their share. The
names of the children of Abraham Perkins
were: Mary, Abraham, Luke, Humphrey,
James, Timothy, James (2), Jonathan, David,
Abigail, Timothy (2), Sarah and Humphrey
(2).
David Perkins, son of Abraham, of Hamp-
ton. N. H., was born Feb. 28, 1653, settled in
Beverly about 1673, married Elizabeth Brown,
daughter of Francis Brown, of Beverly, 1675-
76, and in 1688 became a resident of Bridge-
water, in that part of the town whicli became
ilie South Precinct. In 1694 he built the first
mill at the site of the iron works of Messrs.
Lazell, Perkins & Co., known afterwards as the
Bridgewater Iron Company, and was engaged
in the occupation of blacksmith. He was the
first representative of the town in the General
Court at Boston after the union of the Col-
onies of Plymouth and Massachusetts, in 1692,
and served also in this capacity in 1694, and
from 1704 to 1707, inclusive. His death oc-
curred Oct. 1, 1736. His wife, who was born
Oct. 17, 1654, died July 14, 1735. In his will
of June 17, 1736, he names his sons: David,
Abraham, Thomas, sole executor, and Nathan,
deceased, and grandchildren: David and Jona-
than, children of his son David, and Nathan,
Timothy, James, Solomon, Martha and Silence,
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children of Nathan. His children were : Mary,
David, Nathan and Thomas, who resided in
Bridgewater; and Abraham, who became a set-
tler in Kingston, R. I., and died in 1746.
Thomas Perkins, son of David and Elizabeth
Perkins, was born in Bridgewater May 8, 1688.
He married Feb. 20, 1717, Mary Washburn,
supposed to be the daughter of James and Mary
(Bowden) Washburn, of Bridgewater, and lived
near the site of the present iron works. Their
children were: Mary, born 1718, married Jo-
siah Hayward, 1742; Hepzibah, born 1720, mar-
ried Elezer Carver, 1746;, Thomas, born 1722,
married Mary Pratt, 1748; Charles, born 1724,
died 1726; Ebenezer, born 1727, is mentioned
below; Francis, born 1729, married Susanna
Waterman, 1762, and Phillibert Keith, 1775.
The wife of Thomas Perkins, Mary (Wash-
burn) Perkins, died April 23, 1750, and he
died June 5, 1761.
Ebenezer Perkins, son of Thomas and Mary
(Washburn) Perkins, born April 20, 1727, mar-
ried Feb. 28, 1751, Experience Holmes. Their
children were: Ebenezer, born 1752; Mary,
born 1753; Holmes, born 1757; Hepzibah, born
1759; Susanna, born 1764; Nancy, born 1769
(who married Rufus Leach). Ebenezer Per-
kins, the father, died May 31, 1770.
Ebenezer Perkins, son of Ebenezer and Ex-
perience (Holmes) Perkins, born in 1752, mar-
ried Mary Pratt, daughter of Solomon and
Mary (Keith) Pratt, in 1782. Their children
were: Ebenezer, born 1783 (died 1784) ; Mary
K., 1784 (died 1786) ; Daniel, 1786; Thomas,
1788; Solomon, 1790; Aaron, 1792; Oman,
1794; Minerva, 1796; Ebenezer, 1798; Simeon,
1801; Mary K., 1802; Ozias, 1804. Ebenezer
Perkins, the father, died in 1833..^ Mary
(Pratt) Perkins, the mother, died in 1849.
Ebenezer Perkins, the father, was an active
patriot in the war of the Revolution. The rec-
ords of Massachusetts give the following:
"Ebenezer Perkins, of Bridgewater, private,
Capt. James Allen's company. Col. Simeon
Cary's regiment, pay abstract for mileage dated,
'Camp near New York, Aug. 9, 1776,' mileage
for 251 miles allowed the said Perkins, private;
also Capt. Nathaniel Packard's company. Col.
Thomas Carpenter's regiment, entered service
July 25, 1778, discharged Sept. 9, 1778— ser-
vice one month and sixteen days, at Rhode
Island. Roll sworn to at Plymt)uth. Was also
among the descriptive list of men raised in
Plymouth county in 1779 to serve in the Con-
tinental army, aged twenty-seven years, stature
six feet, complexion dark. Engaged for town
of Bridgewater; reported delivered to Capt. L.
Bailey. Was also private, Capt. L. Bailey's
company, Colonel Bailey's (2) regiment; en-
tered service July 25, 1779, discharged April
25, 1780, term nine months. Was also among
a descriptive list of men raised to reinforce the
Continental army for the term of six months,
agreeable to resolve of June 5, 1780; returned
as received of Justin Ely, commissioner, by
Brig. Gen. John Glover, at Springfield Aug. 2,
1780, aged twenty-eight years, stature six feet,
complexion dark, engaged for town of Bridge-
water, arrived at Springfield July 31, 1780,
marched to camp Aug. 2, 1780, under command
of Lieut. Benjamin Pike. Was also among the
list of men raised for the six months' service
and returned by Brigadier General Paterson
as having passed muster in a return dated Oct.
25, 1780 ; was commissioned corporal. Pay roll
for six months' men raised by the town of
Bridgewater for service in the Continental army
at West Point during 1780, marched July 12,
1780, discharged Jan. 13, 1781, service six
months and thirteen days, including travel
(240 miles) home."
Solomon Perkins, son of Ebenezer and Mary
(Pratt) Perkins, was a native of Bridgewater,
born May 16, 1790, and there Feb. 14, 1813,
married Clarissa Robinson, daughter of Dyer
Robinson and his wife Abigail (Stetson). To
this union were born: Henry, 1814; Charles
Robinson, 1816; William Franklin, 1818;
George Sproat, 1820 ; Ebenezer, 1826 ; Mary K.
and Martha H., twins, 1828; Alfred Holmes,
1830. He was long engaged as a foundryman
in the works of Messrs. Lazell, Perkins & Co.
He died Feb. 26, 1880, and his wife died Oct.
13, 1859.
Henry Perkins, a son of Solomon and Clarissa
(Robinson) Perkins, was born in Bridgewater
April 25, 1814. In the maternal line of de-
scent he was a grandson of Dyer Robinson of
Bridgewater, a forgeman in the iron works of
Messrs. Lazell, Perkins & Co., and was a nephew
of Increase, Dyer, Gad and Jacob Robinson,
long associated with the iron works in Bridge-
water, and of Charles and Enoch Robinson, of
the Old Colony Iron Works of Taunton. Mr.
Perkins received his early training in the pub-
lie schools of his native place and at Bridge-
water Academy, and at an early age entered upon
the occupation of an iron worker and foundry-
man with employment at Bridgewater, Swanzey
and in the Hudson Valley. In 1847, about
the time of his marriage, Mr. Perkins estab-
lished an iron foundry in Bridgewater near
the site of the cotton gin factory of Messrs.
Bates, Hyde & Co., now the Continental Gin
Company factory, and soon after the period of
the Civil war erected a spacious foundry- and
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649
machine shop on the line of the Old Colony
railroad, now the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad, which has ever held an im-
portant place in the maniifacturing establish-
ments of the town. Mr. Perkins possessed a
profound knowledge of the history and devel-
opment of the iron industry and with the eye
of an expert gave attention to every requirement
of his office and to the operations and products
of his foundry. For many years the large an-
nual production of pianoforte frames, the in-
ventions of the Chickerings and other manufac-
turers, included much of the workmanship of
this foundry and established its reputation for
the production of work of the best quality of
American iron and illustrative of the perfec-
tion of the art of casting. For many years also
Mr. Perkins was interested in the prosperity of
the Eagle Cotton Gin Company of Bridge-
water, which gave emplojrment to a large num-
ber of men, and for a long period held the posi-
tion of president of the company. Interested
in public affairs, he did not seek or hold political
office, but devoted himself to the demands of
his occupation, and remained in active business
life- for more than sixty years.
As a man of untiring energy and honorable
business methods he was enabled to achieve suc-
cess in his undertakings and was respected and
esteemed by those who were in his employ, and
by the members of the community of which he
was a benefactor. He will long be remembered
for his spirit of benevolence and for the quali-
ties of heart which endeared him to his family
and associates. His death occurred March 24,
1901.
Mr. Perkins married July 16, 1848. Amelia
Bartlett Sherman, daughter of Aaron Simmons
aid Lydia (Whitney) Sherman, of Bridgewater.
Their children were: Ralph, born March 26,
1849 ; Katharine, Oct. 6, 1851 ; Henry, Nov. 24,
1853 (died Dec. 12, 1854) ; Annie, Jan. 24,
1855 (died July 2, 1858) ; Clara, May 11, 1856
(died May 24, 1888) ; Ebenezer, March 27,
1859; Charles, March 24, 1862; Amelia, June
16, 1864 ; Enoch, Oct. 24, 1866 ; Harry K., Aug.
11, 1868; Saba, Sept. 7, 1869.
SLADE. (I) William Slade, the first of
the line in this country, is said to have been
bom in Wales, Great Britain, the son of Ed-
ward, of whom nothing seems to be known
more than that he died. This family is said
to have come from Somersetshire, England,
probably being of Wales only a short time.
William appears of record at Newport, R. I.,
in 1659. when admitted a freeman of the Col-
ony. He became an early settler in the Shaw-
omet Purchase or Shawomet Lands, which in-
cluded that part of Swansea which later be-
came the town of Somerset. Mr. Slade located
in Swansea as early as 1680, the year of the
beginning of the first record book, and the
meetings of the proprietors were held at his
house after their discontinuance at Plymouth,
in 1677. Mr. Slade was a large landholder,
his possessions including the ferry across
Taunton river which took his name, Slade's
ferry, and which remained in the family until
the river was bridged in 1876, and it was last
operated by William L. and Jonathan Slade.
Mr. Slade married Sarah, daughter of Rev.
Obadiah Holmes, of Rehoboth. He died March
30, 1729, aged sixty-seven years; Sarah, his
widow, died Sept. 10, 1761, aged ninety-seven,
and her descendants numbered 435 at that
time. Of their ten children three were sons:
Mary, born in May, 1689; William, born in
1692; Edward, born June 14, 1694; Eliza-
beth, bom Dec. 3, 1695; Hannah, born July
15, 1697; Sarah; Martha, bora Feb. 27, 1699;
Phebe, born Sept. 25, 1701; Jonathan, born
Aug. 3, 1703 (died aged about eighteen) ;
Lydia, born Oct. 8, 1706.
(II) Edward Slade, son of William, born
June 14, 1694, married (first) in 1717 Eliza-
beth Anthony, (second) Dec. 6, 1720, Phebe,
daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Sherman)
Chase, and (third) Deborah Buffum. They
were members of the Society of Friends. His
children were born as follows: By the first
marriage — William, Sept. 25, 1718; by the
second marriage — Samuel, Sept. 26, 1721 ;
Elizabeth, April 29, 1723; Joseph, Nov. 16,
1724; Sarah, in February, 1726; by the third
marriage — Edward, Jr., Nov. 11, 1728; Philip,
April 19, 1730; Phebe, July 4, 1737: Mercy,
in 1744.
(III) Edward Slade, Jr., son of Edward
and Deborah (Buffum) Slade, bom Nov. 11,
1728, married June 4, 1756, Lydia Baker, his
cousin, daughter of Ebenezer and Lydia
(Slade) Baker. Children: Baker, bom Sept.
20, 1759; John; Edward; Sarah; Phebe.
(IV) Baker Slade, son of Edward, Jr., born
Sept. 20, 1759, married March 18, 1784, Han-
nah, daughter of Capt. Mial Pierce and his
wife Hepsibeth (Mason), of Swansea and
Somerset, Mass. They were farming people
of Somerset. Their ten children were born
as follows: Lydia, April 1, 1785; Edward, Jan.
8, 1787; JohiQ, Sept. 17, 1789; Jonathan, Oct.
27, 1791; Mial, April 13, 1793; Elizabeth,
March 8, 1795: Philip, March 17, 1797; Han-
nah, Feb. 15, 1799; Sarah, April, 1801; Levi,
Aug. 29, 1804.
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(V) John Slade married Phebe Pierce, of
Somerset, and they were farming people of
Swansea and Somerset, Mass. Among their
■children were sons: Pierce, John and Edmund.
The father of these died at the early age of
twenty-seven and the widow married (second)
Wing Eddy and several children were born to
"them. Mrs. Eddy lived to advanced years.
(VI) Jolin Slade (2) married his cousin,
Mary, daughter of Edward Slade (above).
They were farming people and both died com-
paratively young, Mr. Slade when twenty-seven
;and Mrs. Slade at the age of thirty-nine years.
Their children were : Winslow, wlio was lost
at sea; John Palmer; Edward and Mary, the
two latter being twins who died in infancy.
(VII) John Palmer Slade, son of John
and Mary (Slade) Slade, was born Nov. 13,
1824, in Somerset, Mass. His father dying
•when he was but three years of age, and his
mother when he was fourteen, he made his
home with the family of Capt. Eobert Gibbs,
■a farmer of Somerset. He was given a com-
mon school education and for a period at-
tended Myers Academy at Warren, R. I. The
•conditions about his early years prompted that
spirit of self-reliance and independence that
no doubt led to the great success he attained
in life. Early thrown upon his own resources,
by his energy and perseverance he soon ac-
quired a reputation among his associates for
■enterprise and correct business methods. In
1841 he entered upon what proved to be a
prosperous career as a clerk in a grocery and
■drug store in Fall River. Remaining so oc-
cupied for some eight months, he then went
to the South in the capacity of a clerk in
the establishment of his cousin Mr. F. P.
Cummings, becoming a few months later a
partner in the business — that of general mer-
chandise and cotton. Two years later Mr.
Slade purchased his partner's interest, settled
up the business and returned to Fall River,
where he ever afterward resided and prospered.
This was in the late forties and for the suc-
ceeding seven years he was clerk and con-
ductor for the Fall River Railroad Company,
it later becoming the Old Colony Company.
From 1855 to 1858 he was clerk and salesman
for Mr. Hale Remington, who was a general
commission merchant. In 1858 he himself
became engaged in this line of effort, estab-
lishing a wholesale commission and insurance
business in which he continued, and with suc-
cess, the remainder of his life. His son Leon-
ard N. Slade became associated with him as
partner in the business in 1879, the firm name
becoming John P. Slade & Son.
As the cotton manufacturing industry be-
gan to develop in New England, Mr. Slade,
with other progressive citizens, recognizing the
admirable facilities afforded by the water power
of Fall River, gave an encouraging support to
all new enterprises for the manufacture of cot-
ton goods. In 1863 he was one of the original
subscribers to the Granite Mills corporation,
which was organized in his oflBce and in which
he served as director. When the Davol Mills
were organized in 1867 he became one of the
directors; he assisted in establishing the Shove
Mills in 1872 and was made a director and the
first treasurer; he also served as president of
this corporation from 1875 to 1880. For sev-
eral years he was a director of the Weetamoe
Mills and from 1881 up to the time of his
death he was president of the Laurel Lake
Mills. In all of these great enterprises Mr.
Slade displayed marked executive and admin-
istrative ability. For upward of forty years
Mr. Slade was secretary of the Five Cents Sav-
ings Bank (of which he was vice-president to
the time of his death), an institution that has
been of the greatest usefulness to the city and
now carries deposits to the amount of approxi-
mately $5,000,000. From 1865 up to the time
of his death Mr. Slade was a director of the
Fall River National Bank, the oldest financial
institution in Fall River. In all of these many
and varied positions he filled and in the many
corporations with which he was identified he
displayed rare good judgment, energy and en-
terprise. In 1856-57 Mr. Slade served as a
Republican member of the board of aldermen,
having in the previous year, 1855, when the
city was one year old, been a member of the
common council. He was again an alderman
in 1860 and a common councilman in the years
1866, 1867, 1877 and 1878. He was a charter
member of King Philip Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
a member of Fall River Chapter, R. A. M.,
Fall River Council, R. & S. M., and a charter
member of Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery,
K. T. He was also a member of the First
Congregational parish. Mr. Slade died June
12, 1902, aged seventy-seven years, seven
months.
Mr. Slade married (first) Sarah L., daugh-
ter of Martin and Mary Lewin, of Somerset,
Mass.. who died soon thereafter. He subse-
quently married (second) Ruth Ann Gardner,
daughter of Preserved S. and Ann Maria
Ganiner, of Swansea, Mass., and after her
death he married (third), Jan. 28, 1858, Lois
A., daughter of Moses and Ruth B. (Slade)
Buffinton, of Swansea. Two sons, Leonard N".
and Abbott E., were born to the second mar-
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riage ; and by the third he had : Mary E., born
Sept. 26, 1859; Benjamin, born Dec. 10, 1860,
who died Oct. 7, 1861; John Milton, born
June 12, 1864, who died March 23, 1868; and
Louis Palmer, born March 14, 1873.
(VIII) Leonard N. Slade, born Feb. 11,
1852, son of John Palmer and Ruth Ann
(Gardner) Slade, married Emma F. Peckham,
daughter of Joseph Peckham, of Newport.
Their children were: Everett N., who married
Asenath Borden, daughter of Jerome Borden;
Zetta Lois, who married Charles E. Chace;
John P., who died young; and Francis C. Mr.
Slade is connected with the John P. Slade &
Sons Company.
(VIII) Abbott E. Slade, son of John
Palmer and Ruth Ann (Gardner) Slade, was
born on Bank street, Fall River, Dec. 14, 1853.
He was educated in the public schools of Fall
Eiver, where he prepared for entrance to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Bos-
ton, he matriculating at that institution in
the fall of 1871. Here he continued the regu-
lar course of study of the institute for three
and a half years, and to within one-half year
of graduation, when a severe attack of typhoid
fever made it seem inadvisable to continue his
studies. He then engaged in work as a civil
engineer, being for about one year with two
or three engineers of the city, and for a few
months in the city engineers office. From this
employment he went into the engineering de-
partment of the Fall River waterworks, being
there part of the time employed as general
service man. He then became clerk to the city
treasurer, and continued thus until the fall of
1881, when he was elected treasurer of the Lau-
rel Lake Mills, his father at that time being
president of the company. With the exception
of two years, 1899 and 1900, he has continued
in that position to the present time. During
the two years 1899-1900 he was engaged in
the cotton brokerage business. Mr. Slade is
a director of the Laurel Lake Mills. He has
been a Republican in politics but not active in
such matters. He is a member of King Philip
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Fall River, of which
he was secretary for a number of years ; of
Fall River Royal Arch Chapter; of Fall River
Council, R. & S. M., and of Godfrey de Bouil-
lon Commandery, Fall River, of which he is a
past commander. He belongs to the First
Congregational Church Society of Fall River.
Mr. Slade married Cora Lynn Chase, daugh-
ter of George D. and Sarah M. Chase, of
Providence, and they have one son, Harold
Chapin, born in Fall River April 26, 1885.
(VIII) Mary E. Slade, born Sept. 26, 1859,
daughter of John Palmer and Lois A. (Buf-
finton) Slade, married June 14, 1882, Horace
W. Tinkham, son of Andrew L. and Dorothy
(King) Tinkham. They make their home on
their large farm on Touisset Neck, Warren,
R. I. Their children are: Henry Buffinton,
born June 14, 1883, who married Helen,
daughter of George and Lavinia Marvel, bom
Aug. 13, 1884, and they have a daughter, Dor-
othy Lavinia, born July 1, 1909; George King,
born Aug. 13, 1885; Marion Lois, born Jan.
19. 1888; and Corrella Whitridge, born Feb.
3, 1889.
(VIII) Louis Palmer Slade, born March
14, 1873, son of John Palmer and Lois A.
(Buffinton) Slade, married April 2, 1901,
Charlotte Keach Boone. Their children are:
Virginia, born Feb. 13, 1903 ; Benjamin, born
April 11, 1905; John Milton, born May 17,
1907. Mr. Slade was educated in the public
schools of Fall River, graduated from the high
school, from Williams College with the class
of 1893, and pursued post graduate work at
Harvard. He spent a year in European travel
and was in attendance at the University of
Berlin during the winter semester of 1895-96.
In 1898 he became instructor in history in the
Fall River high school. In 1905 he became
principal of the high school at Chicopee, Mass.,
and has since been instrumental in establishing
an industrial department in that school. While
at Williams College he became a member of the
Delta Upsilon fraternity, and was elected to
the Phi Beta Kappa.
JONAS REYNOLDS, one of the well-kno\\'n
shoe manufacturers of Brockton, is one of the
city's substantial and respected citizens — one
whose whole life has been spent in the com-
munity where his honored ancestors for several
generations before him were numbered among
the industrious residents of the locality. Mr.
Reynolds was born at Marshall's Corner, North
Bridgewater (now Brockton), Mass., in the
same house where he now resides, which house
was built by his father. The history of this use-
ful citizen and that of his family follows, the
generations being given in chronological order.
(I) Robert Reynolds appears in Boston as
early as 1632 and is believed to have been bom
in England. He joined the church in Boston
Aug. 10, 1634. He is mentioned Sept. 3, 1634,
as a shoemaker and freeman. Soon thereafter
he removed to Watertown, and finally went with
his brother John to Wethersfield, Conn., being
dismissed March 29, 1636, by the church to
form a church in Wethersfield. However, he
soon returned to Boston, and there passed the
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rest of his life, dying April 27, 1659. The
Christian name of his wife was Mary. She died
Jan. 18, 1663. Their children, all believed to
have been born in England, were: Nathaniel;
Euth, who married John Whitney; Tabitha,
who married Matthew Abdy; Sarah, who mar-
ried Eobert Mason ; and Mary, who married
Eichard Sanger.
(II) Capt. Nathaniel Eeynolds, son of Eob-
ert, born about 1627, in England, came when a
child to New England with his parents. He
became a freeman in 1665 ; was a shoemaker.
In a record dated Chelmsford, Feb. 25, 1676,
he was called captain, probably for service in
King Philip's war. He was a lieutenant in an
artillery company. [Professor Munro, of Brown
University, says in his History of Bristol (1880)
that Nathaniel Eeynolds was a member of the
Artillery Company, and did good service in
the Indian war as captain of a company under
Colonel Church.] He removed to Bristol (now
Ehode Island) in 1680 and was recognized in
the first town ftieeting there. He became one
of the principal men of the town. He married
(first) Nov. 30, 1657 (the ceremony being
performed by Gov. John Endicott), Sarah,
daughter of John Dwight, of Dedham. She
died July 8, 1663, and he married (second)
Priscilla, daughter of Peter Brackett, a well-to-
do tradesman of Boston. He had three children
by his first wife and eight by his second. He
died at Bristol July 10, 1708. His children
were : Sarah, born July 26, 1659, married John
Fosdick; Mary, born Nov. 20, 1660, died
young; Nathaniel was born March 3, 1662-63;
John, Aug. 4, 1668; Peter, Jan. 26, 1670;
Philip, Sept. 15, 1674; Joseph, Dec. 29, 1676;
Hannah, Jan. 15, 1682 (married Samuel
Eoyall) ; Mary, in 1684 (married Nathaniel
Woodbury); Benjamin, May 10, 1686; Ruth,
Dec. 9, 1688 (married Josiah Cary).
(III) Nathaniel Reynolds (2), son of Capt.
Nathaniel, born March 3, 1662-63, lived in
Boston, and there died prior to 1717. The
Christian name of his wife was Ruth, and he
was the father of nine children, among them
Nathaniel, born Jan. 14, 1693 ; John, born
March 29, 1696; and Philip, born May 12, 1701.
(See full record elsewhere in this work.)
(IV) Nathaniel Eeynolds (3), son of Natha-
niel (2), born Jan. 14, 1694, in Boston, was
a shoemaker, like his father and grandfather.
He married Jan. 27, 1717, Mary Snell, daugh-
ter of Thomas Snell, of Bridgewater, and they
had sons Nathaniel, born March 19, 1718, and
Thomas, born Feb. 25, 1719. The father died
in Boston Oct. 29, 1719, and his widow moved
to her native town of Bridgewater, Mass., tak-
ing her two sons with her.
(V) Nathaniel Eeynolds (4), son of Nathan-
iel (3), was born March 19, 1718, in Boston,
on Milk street, in the same house in which Ben-
jamin Franklin was born in 1706. He mar-
ried jn 1739 Hannah, daughter of Samuel
Hartwell, and their children were : Philip, born
in 1740; and Jonas, born in 1742. His first
wife died Aug. 12, 1742, and he married (sec-
ond) June 14, 1744, Mary Tolman, daughter
of Thomas Tolman, of Stoughton, Mass., and
their children were: Timothy, born in 1746;
Hannah, in 1750; Mary, in 1754; Nathaniel,
in 1757; David, in 1759; Silence, in 1760;
Jonathan, in 1764; and Cynthia, in 1769.
(VI) Jonas Reynolds, son of Nathaniel (4),
was born Jan. 28, 1742. In 1768 he married
Anna Perkins, daughter of Luke Perkins, and
their children were: Anna, born in 1769;
Jonas, in 1772; Isaac, in 1774; John Perkins,
in 1781; David Perkins; Jonathan; and Polly.
The father died Aug. 5, 1795, and his widow
married for her second husband, in 1798, Dea-
con Eli jail Snell.
(VII) Jonas Reynolds (2), son of Jonas,
born Sept. 28, 1772, was a farmer and wheel-
wright, and for a number of years was engaged
in making spinning wheels. He was indus-
trious, and was recognized as a fine workman,
many of his spinning wheels still being in exist-
ence— now prized for their antiquity. He died
in North Bridgewater June 22, 1842. In 1798
he married Rebecca Hayward, daughter of
Joseph Hayward, and their children were: Mar-
tin Luther is mentioned below ; Orren, born
Feb. 17, 1801, died unmarried Sept. 26, 1822;
Anna, born April 16, 1803, married in 1824
Simeon Carr, and she died in Brockton ; Mary,
born June 26, 1805, married John Tilden, Jr.,
in 1823, and she died in Brockton ; Joseph Hay-
ward, born Sept. 17, 1808, a farmer and car-
penter, who died at Brockton Heights, mar-
ried in 1834 Zibia Sumner; Rebecca, born
Sept. 28, 1814, married in 1834 Howard Til-
den, and she died in Philadelphia; and Eliza-
beth S., who was born Dec. 16, 1824, died July
25, 1826.
(VIII) Martin Luther Eeynolds, son of Jo-
nas (2), was born March 2, 1799, in North
Bridgewater, in that part known as Brockton
Heights. In early life he learned the carpen-
ter's trade, which he followed for a number of
years, during which time he located in that part
of the town known as Marshall's Corner, and
there he built his home, which is now the resi-
dence of his son, Jonas Eeynolds. He finally
engaged in farming, and also conducted a grist
mill near his home, continuing thus engaged
until his death April 27. 1880. He was an in-
dustrious man, and acquired a comfortable com-
SOUTHEASTEEN MASSACHUSETTS
653
petency. He was possessed of a quiet though
genial manner, and was a kind and considerate
friend and neighbor. In his political views he
early allied himself with the old-line Whigs, and
upon the organization of the Kepublican party
identified himself with the latter. On Nov. 30,
1826, Mr. Reynolds was married to Abigail
Tilden, daughter of John and Polly (Howard)
Tilden, of North Bridgewater. She died in
Brockton Oct. 29, 1885, aged seventy-eight
years. To Mr. and Mrs. Eeynolds were born
three children, as follows: Martin Bradford,
born Oct. 11, 1827, died unmarried Oct. 4,
1850; Orren Bgnton, born April 10, 1832, died
in infancy ; Jonas was born Feb. 2, 1837.
(IX) Jonas Reynolds, son of Martin Luther
and Abigail (Tilden) Reynolds, was born Feb.
2, 1837, in North Bridgewater, Mass., and in
the common schools of his native town began his
educational training. He then attended the
East Greenwich (R. I.) Academy for four
years, after which he was a student in the
Bridgewater normal school, from which insti-
tution he graduated. He left school when about
twenty-three years old, and then began teaching
school in Campello, continuing there several
years, three years of the time being principal of
the Campello schools. Resigning his position
as teacher he then engaged in the shoe manu-
facturing business in .partnership with Palmer
Newton. This partnership continued for only
a short time, however, when he became asso-
ciated with George G. Whitten, under the firm
name of Whitten & RejTiolds, shoe manufactur-
ers, locating in a small shop at Marshall's Cor-
ner. After several years this firm was dis-
solved, Mr. Reynolds purchasing his partner's
interests, and he continued alone in the busi-
ness until in 1876, when he took into partner-
ship Charles E. Drake, the firm becoming J.
Reynolds & Co. The firm so continued until
it was incorporated under the name of Reynolds,
Drake & Gabell, William F. Gabell, one of the
firm's salesmen, being made a member. They
engaged in the manufacture of the medium-
grade shoe, which retails for from $3.50 to $5.00,
giving employment to from 100 to 125 hands,
with an output of about five hundred pairs per
day. On the night of Jan. 24, 1909, the plant
was completely destroyed by fire. This factory
was a frame building 40x185 feet, three stories
high, and was built by Mr. Reynolds in 1870.
He was spending the winter in California with
his wife when the fire occurred, and upon his
return, in the spring of 1909, the firm was re-
organized under the name of the Reynolds-
Stetson Shoe Company, A. W. Stetson, a prac-
tical shoemaker, becoming a member of the firm.
A factory was obtained in North Easton, Mass.,
to which place the business was removed, and
where it is now being successfully carried on.
Mr. Stetson withdrawing from the firm in Janu-
ary, 1910, it became the Reynolds, Drake &
Gabell Company.
Mr. Reynolds is a director of the Cowesset
Cemetery Company of Brockton. In political
faith he is a Republican, and has served the
city as a member of the common council. He
attends the Pearl Street Methodist Church,
while Mrs. Reynolds attended the Olivet Mem-
orial Church (undenominational) at Brockton.
She formerly attended the Pearl Street Metho-
dist Church. She attended the meetings of
the Christian and Missionary Alliance at Old
Orchard, Maine, where the family has had a
summer home for many years. She was much
interested in missionary work and of a very
faithful and devout nature. Of strong per-
sonality and charming temperament, she made
friends with all with whom she became asso-
ciated. Her life was characterized by its
marked simplicity, and there was nothing osten-
tatious in her nature.
Mr. Reynolds is of a quiet and retiring na-
ture, but possesses a genial manner which has
made him many friends. He is keen, intellec-
tual and farsighted. When the business cares
of the day are ended he is found in his home,
where his friends are always welcome. He has
spent several winters in Florida.
On Nov. 29, 1866, Mr. Reynolds married
Ellen Sherman Keith, who was bom in North
Bridgewater, in the section then known as "The
Plain" (now Campello), Sept. 13, 1836, daugh-
ter of Bela and Mary (Kingman) Keith, of
Campello, where she was educated in the pub-
lic schools. To this union were born children
as follows : Abbie Keith, born June 30, 1868,
married Rev. George W. Higgins, of Durham,
Maine, and has three children, Caleb, Austin
Perry, and Miriam Reynolds; Mary Louise,
born" Oct. 20, 1872, married Carl J. Carlson,
who is engaged in the real estate and insurance
business in Brockton, and has a son, Bela Keith
Carlson; Martin Elbert, bom Jan. 23, 1876,
who is associated with his father in the shoe
manufacturing business, being president of the
RejTiolds, Drake & Gabell Company, married
Lula M. Sladen, of North Easton, Mass., and
they have two children, Alfred Sladen and
Ellene Marie. Mrs. Reynolds passed away at
the summer home of the family at Old Orchard,
Maine, July 25, 1910, in the seventy-fourth
year of her age.
Mrs. Jonas Reynolds was a descendant of
early New England families, in both paternal
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and maternal lines. Among her ancestors may
be mentioned Rev. James Keith, the first min-
ister of the ancient town of Bridgewater; John
Gary, the first town clerk of Bridgewater ; Dea-
con Samuel Edson, who erected the first mill
in the town of Bridgewater; Henry Kingman,
of Weymouth, Mass., the first of his name in
this country; and William Sherman, one of the
early settlers of Plymouth, who later removed
to Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Bela Keith, father of Mrs. Reynolds, was
a son of Benjamin and Martha (Gary) Keith,
and a direct descendant in the sixth generation
from Rev. James Keith (I), the first ordained
minister in Bridgewater, where he continued
in the ministry for fifty-six years, through
Timothy and Hannah (Fobes) Keith (II) ;
Timothy and Bethiah (Ames) Keith (III) ;
Levi and Jemima (Perkins) Keith (IV) ; and
Benjamin and Martha (Gary) Keith (V). Bela
Keith was born Feb. 2, 1793, in the village of
Gampello, in what was then the town of
Bridgewater, later North Bridgewater, and now
a part of Brockton. After acquiring his early
educational training in the district schools of
his neighborhood, he became apprenticed to the
carpenter's trade, and after familiarizing him-
self with the details of the business he estab-
lished himself in the contracting and building
business, in which he was successfully engaged
until his death. From early manhood till his
death, Mr. Keith was prominently identified
with the interests of the town, and was an ac-
tive worker in all measures which had for their
object the advancement of the social,, material
and religious welfare of the community. As
a contractor and builder he carried on a large
business in the erection of residences, factories,
churches, etc. He built the. second church edi-
fice belonging to the First Gongregational
Ghurch of Brocldon, and also erected the first
house of worship of the South Gongregational
Church at Gampello, which cost $4,307.37, of
which only $3,000 was subscribed, and he, as
master builder of the edifice, paid the balance
of $1,307.37 himself. This edifice was de-
stroyed by fire in May, 1853, and Mr. Keith was
chairman of the committee which erected the
present church edifice. Mr. Keith also owned
a large farm at Gampello, upon which a portion
of the village is now located. He was a safe
and prudent man to trust in the management
of town affairs, and as early as 1837 was com-
missioned a justice of the peace, a capacity in
which he served as long as he lived. He was
selectman of the town in 1845-46-47-48-51-52-
53-54, and was also assessor and overseer of the
poor for a number of years, and in all these
official positions he discharged the duties with,
an eye single to the public good, and he died
honored by his fellow citizens, and esteemed
by a large circle of friends and relatives. He
was a consistent Christian, and one of the prin-
cipal founders of the South Gongregational
Ghurch Society in 1837, remaining an active-
member of the church until his death Sept.
6, 1867, in the seventy-fifth year of his age.
At the time of his death, one who knew himi
and his family well wrote the following notice :
"The last of four brothers whose lives were-
spent in the vicinity of their early home at Gam-
pello, has been called from the scenes of his
early labors, cares and benefactions. Respected
and honored in life wherever he was known,
he is in death universally lamented by neighbors
and fellow citizens. Seldom has so large an
assembly of sincere mourners gathered to pay
the' last token of respect to a departed friend,,
as congregated at the funeral of Mr. Keith in
the church at Gampello. It wanted no elo-
quent language to awaken the sympathy of the
audience, and well did the pastor remark that
the 'deceased needed no eulogium from him.'
His life was a transparent one — well known
and well read by his acquaintances and friends.
Of a well balanced mind, an unpretending and
unambitious spirit, his fellow citizens had often
called him to positions of trust and honor. In
every public enterprise he had been liberal, in
every philanthropic object at home and abroad
he had taken a generous interest ; in supporting
the institutions of religion, in erecting temples
of worship, in maintaining the preached word,
he had borne no humble part, but had willingly
stood up under the burden and heat of the day.
Many have been the young men who received
their first lessons in business under his direc-
tion, and there is not one who does not gladly
attest to his unfailing integrity and scrupulous
uprightness even in matters of the smallest
consequence, and they will always remember
his almost paternal solicitude for their welfare,
and the constant courtesy and kindness which
characterized his demeanor toward them. Such
a family of brothers — Charles, Ziba, Arza and
Bela Keith — cannot soon be forgotten. The
blessed fragrance of their lives and examples
will remain to exert an abiding influence on the
surviving cotemporaries. They were worthy
to bear the name of the first minister of Bridge-
water, whose descendants they were, and may
their mantles fall on others who shall live and
act like them."
On Jan. 1, 1821, Bela Keith married Mary
Kingman, daughter of Seth and Judith (Wash-
burn) Kingman, of North Bridgewater, and
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
655
their children were: Lewis, born Nov. 12, 1821,
married (first) Charlotte Louise White, of Nor-
ton, Mass., and (second) her sister, Mariette
White; he died in North Bridgewater June 11,
1859. Seth Kingman, born Sept. 23, 1823,
died Aug. 12, 1825. Henry Kingman, born
Dec. 17, 1826, married Vesta Snell Cary, and
died in Kingston, Mass., Aug. 8, 1909. Mary
Kingman, born Oct. 12, 1828, died in North
Bridgewater, unmarried. Louise, born Sept.
20, 1830, married Jan. 25, 1855, Simeon
Franklin Packard, of North Bridgewater, where
she died Sept. 20, 1892. Ellen Sherman, born
Sept. 16, 1836, married Nov. 29, 1866, Jonas
Reynolds, of North Bridgewater. The mother,
although in feeble health for some years, was
always youthful in her interests and feelings,
a kindly neighbor and an affectionate mother;
she died Oct. 30, 1868.
REYNOLDS. The name introducing this
sketch is one synonymous with Brockton and
the development of the shoe industry in that
community, where for several generations the
family has been prominently identified with
the evolution of the industry which has made
Brockton famous the world over as "the shoe
city." This article is to treat particularly of
the branch of this family to which belong the
late Charles Turner Reynolds and his sons, the
latter of whom especially have made a name and
reputation for themselves in the shoe manu-
facturing world. They are descendants in the
ninth generation of Robert Reynolds, shoemaker
of Boston, and the early history of this family
is here given, the generation follomng in
chronological order.
(I) Robert RejTiolds, believed to have been
born in England, was apparently in Boston as
early as 1630, joining the church at Boston
Aug. 10, 1634. and is mentioned Sept. 3, 1634,
as a shoemaker and freeman. Soon thereafter
he removed to Watertown, and finally went with
his brother John to Wethersfield, Conn., being
dismissed March 29, 1636, by the church to
form a church in Wethersfield. He, however,
soon returned to Boston, and there passed the
rest of his life, dying April 27, 1659. The
Christian name of his wife was Mary. She died
Jan. 18, 1663. Their children, all believed to
have been born in England, were : Nathaniel
is mentioned below : Ruth married John Whit-
ney; Tabitha married Matthew Abdy; Sarah
married Robert Mason; Mary married Richard
Sanger.
(II) Capt. Nathaniel Reynolds, son of Rob-
ert, bom about 1627, in England, came when
a child to New England with his parents. He
became a freeman in 1665; was a shoemaker.
In a record dated Chelmsford. Feb. 25, 1676,
he was called captain, probably for service in.
King Philip's war. He was a lieiitenant in
an artillery company. [Professor Munro, of
Brown University, says in his History of Bris-
tol (1880) that Nathaniel Reynolds was a mem-
ber of the Artillery Company, and did good
service in the Indian war as captain of a com-
pany under Colonel Church.] He removed to
Bristol (now Rhode Island) in 1680 and was
recognized in the first town meeting there. He
became one of the principal men of the town.
He married (first) Nov. 30, 1657, the cere-
mony being performed by Gov. John Endicott,
Sarah, daughter of John Dwight, of Dedham.
She died July 8', 1663, and he married (sec-
ond) Priscilla, daughter of Peter Brackett, a
well-to-do tradesman of Boston. He had thre'-'
children by his first wife and eight by his sec-
ond. He died at Bristol, July 10, 1708. His
children were: Sarah, born July 26, 1659,
married John Fosdick; Mary, born Nov. 20,.
1660, died young; Nathaniel, born March 3,
1662-63, is mentioned below; John was born
Aug. 4, 1668; Peter, Jan. 26, 1670; Philip,
Sept. 15, 1674; Joseph, Dec. 29, 1676; Hannah,
Jan. 15, 1682 (married Samuel Royall) ; Mary,
1684 (married Nathaniel Woodbury) ; Benja-
min, May 10, 1686; Ruth, Dec. 9, 1688 (mar-
ried Josiah Cary).
(III) Nathaniel Reynolds (2), son of Capt.
Nathaniel, born March 3, 1662-63, lived in Bos-
ton, and there died prior to 1717. The Chris-
tian name of his wife was Ruth, and she died
Sept. 19, 1716. They had nine children,
namely: Sarah, born Oct. 25, 1687, married
Robert Young; Ruth, born Sept. 11, 1689, died
March 16, 1693; Mary, born Aug. 21, 1691,
married Edward Marion; Nathaniel, bom Jan.
14, 1694, married Mary Snell; John, bom
March 29, 1696, married Anna Blanch; Eben-
ezer, born in Jime, 1699, died July 29, 1701;
Philip, born May 12, 1701, died Dec. 27, 1727;
Ruth (2), born Sept. 1, 1704, died June 22,
1721; Naomi, born Oct. 27, 1706, married
Samuel Ridgeway.
(IV) Nathaniel Reynolds (3), son of Na-
thaniel (2), born Jan. 14, 1694, in Boston,
was a shoemaker, as were his father and grand-
father. On Jan. 27, 1717, he married Mary
Snell, daughter of Thomas Snell, of Bridge-
water, and they had sons Nathaniel, bom March
19, 1718, and Thomas, born Feb. 25, 1719. The
father died in Boston Oct. 29, 1719, and his
widow moved to her native town of Bridge-
water, Mass., taking her two sons with her.
(V) Thomas Reynolds, son of Nathaniel (3),
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was born Feb. 25, 1719, in Boston, on Milk 20, 1898. (10) Martha, born June 26, 1820,
street, in the same house in which Benjamin married Isaac A. Reynolds, of North Bridge-
Franklin was born in 1706. He married Nov. water, where she died. (11) Mary Ann, bom
3, 1748, Elizabeth Turner, and their children July 28, 1822, married Samuel A. Clark, of
were : Amy, born Oct. 29, 1749, who died Deering, N. H., and died in Abington, Mass.
May 9, 1752; Joseph, born June 21, 1751 ; Amy (12) Joseph, born Sept. 30, 1824, married Eliz-
(2), born Feb. 25, 1753, who married Silas abeth M. Stoddard, of Canton, Mass., and both
Dunbar; Elizabeth, born June 22, 1755; Su- are now deceased. (13) Elizabeth Whitcomb,
sanna, born April 24, 1757, who married Oliver born April 8, 1827, married George H. How-
Howard; Martha, born March 23, 1759, who ard, of Easton; they reside in Brockton. (14)
married Capt. Parmenas Packard; Thomas, Harriet, born April 10, 1829, married Lewis
born Jan. 27, 1762; and Josiah. Randall, of Easton, Mass., and both are de-
(VI) Joseph Reynolds, son of Thomas, born ceased. (15) Olive died March 12, 1836, in
June 21, 1751, married Sept. 17, 1772, Jemima, infancy.
daughter of Luke Perkins, and their children (VIII) Chables Turner Reynolds, eldest
were: Ichabod, born March 27, 1773, who son of Joseph (2) and Phebe (Whitcomb)
married Polly Brett; Joseph-, born April 18, Reynolds, was born May 6, 1818, in North
1775; Daniel; Simeon, who married Mary Bridgewater (now Brockton), where he died
Snell; Azel, who married Susanna Nash; May 20, 1898, aged eighty years. After ac-
Thomas, born Jan. 19, 1776, who taarried quiring his early training in the district schools
Nancy Pike; Jemima; Olive, who married Jo- of his native town, he as a boy took up shoe-
seph Macomber ; Amy, who married Ziphion making, and when he had become familiar with
Howard ; Susanna, who married Capt. Silas the making of boots and shoes he was employed
Dunbar; and Vesta, who married Isaac Clapp. for several years after the fashion of shoemak-
(VII) Joseph Reynolds (2), son of Joseph, ers of that day, taking stock from the factories
born April 18, 1775, married (first) April 19, and making up the boots and shoes at his home,
1798, Martha (Patty), daughter of Silas Dun- returning to the factories with the finished pro-
bar and Amy (Reynolds) Dunbar, and after duct. Later he engaged in the manufacture of
her death (second) Phebe, daughter of Noah shoes on his own account, having his factory in
Whitcomb. Mr. Reynolds was a resident of a part of his house on Pleasant street, where
North Bridgewater, where he was occupied as he continued for a number of years, subse-
a farmer and shoemaker. He also made nails, quently removing the business to larger quar-
which he marketed in Boston. He served as ters, where he was located during the remainder
major in the State militia. He stood over six of his active business career. Mr. Reynolds was
feet in height, was a powerful man, possessed possessed of an amiable, genial disposition, and
a hardy constitution and lived to be upward of enjoyed the friendship as well as the respect
ninety-three years of age, dying in August, and esteem of the community in which his long
1868, in North Bridgewater, Mass. His chil- and useful life was spent. He was an active
dren were: (1) Olive, born April 26, 1799, member of the Pearl Street Methodist Episcopal
died in February, 1800. (2) Pamela, born Church, and for several years played the violin
Aug. 1, 1800, married Azel Packard, and died in that church. In early life he was a member
in North Bridgewater. (3) Sophia, born April of the North Bridgewater Dragoons, and pos-
29, 1802, married Azel Macomber, of Jay, sessing a military bearing made a fine appear-
Maine, where she died. (4) Oliver, born Jan. ance on horseback.
20, 1804, married Olive K. Gay, of Stoughton, On Oct. 15, 1843, Mr. Reynolds married
and they both died in Brockton. (5) Nancy, Sarah Stephens Knowles, daughter of John and
born March 30, 1808, married Joseph Macom- Susannah (Cram) Knowles, of Wilmot, N. H.,
her, of Jay, Maine, where she died. (6) Daniel, and granddaughter of David and Sarah (Ste-
born May 11, 1810, married Hannah Tribou, phens) Knowles. This union was blessed with
and he died in North Bridgewater. (7) Su- children as follows: (1) Charles Wesley, bom
sanna, born June 26, 1812, married Samuel July 17, 1844, was a member of Company D,
Peabody, of Canton, Maine, where she died. 58th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and
(8) Luke, born April 10, 1815, was a shoe- was killed on April 2, 1865, at the last battle
maker and mason, and is now living retired, in front of Petersburg before Lee's surrender.
He married Emeline Harding, of Abington. All during the Civil war; he was unmarried. (2)
these children were born to the first marriage. Sarah Almena, bom Feb. 21, 1847, married
The following were by the second union: (9) Aaron S. Harlow, of Brockton, who is foreman
Charles Turner, born May 6, 1818, died May in the cutting room of Bion F. Reynolds' shoe
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factory. They have one son, Herbert Wesley,
born Nov. 15, 1872 (now bookkeeper for Bion
F. Reynolds), who married Abby Frances
Smith, of Barnstable, Mass., and they have one
son, Wesley Spear Harlow. (3) Lowell Mason,
born Feb. 4, 1849, is mentioned below. (4)
Susan Eldora, born Sept. 3, 1851, married Jus-
tin Hewett, of Brockton, where they reside. He
is mentioned elsewhere in these volumes. (5)
Jay Bird, born May 2, 1854, is mentioned
below. (6) Bion Fourth, born March 4, 1856,
is mentioned loelow. (7) Luke Webster, born
Feb. 3, 1859, is mentioned below. (8) Zira,
bom March 22, 1862, is the widow of William
L. Grout, of Greenfield, Mass., whom she mar-
ried Sept. 1, 1894, and who was prominently
identified with the growth and development
of the New Home Sewing Machine Company,
of Orange, Mass., and who at the time of his.
death, which occurred April 15, 1898, was one
■of the wealthiest and most influential business
men in his section of the vState ; Mrs. Grout
still makes her home in Greenfield, Massachu-
setts.
Mrs. Sahah Stephens (Knowles) Rey-
nolds, wife of Charles T. Re^Tiolds and mother
of the above cliildren, survived her husband,
passing away in the house where she had lived
nearly sixty-four years, and in which all her
xaarried life had been spent, and where her
children were all born, on June 14, 1909, in
the eighty-fourth year of her age. Mrs. Rey-
nolds was born June 25, 1825, in New Chester,
N. H., and after her marriage came to North
Bridgewater and went to housekeeping in the
house on Pleasant street which was built in
1844, and which was ever afterward her home.
■She was of a home-loving nature, a devoted and
affectionate wife and mother, her interests cen-
tering around her family and household, and
beloved by all who knew her for her noble traits
of character. She was a devout member of the
Pearl Street Methodist Episcopal Church, which
she joined by letter upon coming to North
Bridgewater.
(IX) Lowell Mason Reynolds, eldest liv-
ing son of the late Charles T. and Sarah Ste-
phens (Knowles) Reynolds, was .born in North
Bridgewater, Feb. 4, 1849, and in the common
schools of his native town received his early
training. At the age of five years he was assist-
ing his father in making shoes, and at the age
of seven could cut out and make a shoe com-
plete, trading the first pair he made for a jack-
knife. He remained with his father until he
was twenty years of age, when he became a
cutt# in the shoe factorv of the late Peleg S.
Leach, who was one of the leading shoe man-
42
ufacturers of his day. Continuing in the em-
ploy of Mr. Leach for about four years, he next
entered the factory of the late George H. Gur-
ney. When Mr. Gurney died, about one and a
half years later, Mr. Reynolds continued the
business for the firm of B. F. Campbell & Co.,
of Boston, as general manager for about five
years, at the end of that time, in 1880, pur-
chasing the latter business, and the following
year taking into partnership with him his bro-
thers Bion F. and Luke W. Reynolds, the firm
becoming L. M. Reynolds & Co. Their estab-
lishment was located in a part of what is known
as the Charles Howard needle factory, and they
were engaged in the manufacture of shoes of
the medium grade. They occupied these quar-
ters until 1883, when they built a factory of
their own, 30 by 80 feet, three stories high, with
an L, which contained the engine and boiler.
Two years later an addition of 70 feet, and sub-
sequently another addition, of 40 feet, \vith an
additional office building, were erected, making
in all a building 230 by 30 feet, three stories
high, with an L 30 by 40 feet, which was used
for the office. The company employed from
150 to 250 hands, and manufactured daily from
ten hundred to twelve hundred pairs of shoes
which retailed at from $2 to $5 per pair. On
April 18, 1904, this factory was destroyed by
fire, and Mr. Reynolds has since been retired
from active business.
Fraternally Mr. Reynolds is a member of the
difl'erent Masonic bodies, holding membership
in Paul Revere Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Satucket
Chapter, R. A. M., Brockton Council, R. & S.
^[., and Bay State Commandery, Knights Tem-
jilar, of Brockton. He is a member of the Por-
ter Congregational Church, and sang in the
choir of the church for a number of years; he
was also a member of the Paul Revere Quar-
tette for about ten years. In his political views
ilr. Reynolds is a stanch Republican, but has
never cared for nor sought office.
On Dec. 5, 1877, Mr. Reynolds was united in
manriage with Clara B. Cobb, daughter of the
late Lyman E. and Maria (Collamore) Cobb,
of Brockton. They have no children.
(IX) Jay' Bird Reynolds, fifth child of the
late Charles T. and Sarah Stephens (Knowles)
Reynolds, was born May 2, 1854, in North
Bridgewater (now Brockton), Mass., in the old
liomestead on Pleasant street. Like liis elder
hrotlier, he was but five years of age when he
commenced to assist his father in the making of
shoes, and during the time he was not attending
the district schools of his neighborhood he was
industriously employed in his father's shoe
shop. Leaving the schoolroom at the age of
658
SOUTHEASTEEN MASSACHUSETTS
fourteen years, he continued with his father
until he was between seventeen and eighteen
years of age, at which time he entered the shoe
factory of the late Peleg S. Leach, as a shoe
cutter. After remaining in this factory and
other shoe factories of his native town for a
period of about two and a half years, and be-
fore he had reached the age of twenty, he
bought his first leather and, in 1874, estab-
lished himself in business as a shoe manufac-
turer in the house adjoining his home on
Pleasant street. His first purchase of leather
amounted to enough to make five cases of thirty
pairs each, and he himself performed all the
labor in connection with the making of the
shoes with the exception of the finishing of the
bottoms. From this small beginning his busi-
ness steadily grew, so much so that he shortly
removed to Wheeler's factory on Pleasant street,
where he continued for a time, until the in-
creasing demands of his trade again made
larger quarters necessary, and he then located
on Railroad street, in Daniel W. Hayward's
factory building, where he continued for several
years. In 1880 his business had grown to such
proportions that Mr. Reynolds was justified in
purchasing the shoe factory of Porter & South-
worth, on Montello street, to which he removed
his business, taking into partnership with him
Henry H.« Tucker, of Avon, Mass. This part-
nership continued for about one and a half
years, at the end of which time Mr. Reynolds
purcliased the interest of his partner, and there-
after carried on the business alone at the same
location, with marked success, until 1885, in
which year many of the Brockton shoe .manufac-
turers were confronted with labor troubles. Mr.
Reynolds determined to leave tlie city rather
than submit to the terms of the labor unions.
The citizens of Orange, Mass., learning of his
determination to remove his shoe factory from
Brockton, offered him extraordinary induce-
ments to locate his business in that town, agree-
ing to build him a factory, give him the rent
of the same free for a term of five years, and
exempt same from taxation for a period of ten
years, in order to have him locate his plant in
Orange. This factory was 200x30 feet in
dimensions, three stories high, with an office
extension on one side and boiler and engine
house on the otiier. Mr. Reynolds began the
manufacture of shoes in this factory at Orange
about May 1, 1887, and the years that followed
proved so successful for his business that in
the fall of 1890, finding he needed more com-
modious quarters, he purchased the building,
and during the winter erected an addition there-
to 108 feet long, 40 feet wide, and three stories
high, corresponding in architecture with the
main building. The additions made to this fac-
tory gave Mr. Reynolds a working floor space
of 34,000 square feet, and he gave employment
to over three hundred skilled hands, with a
capacity of one hundred cases of shoes,of twenty-
four pairs each, per day, his product being
known as the medium-grade shoes for men, boys
and youths. In 1897 the business was incor-
porated, under the laws of Massachusetts, with
a capital stock of $100,000, as the Jay B. Rey-
nolds Shoe Company, of wliich corporation Mr.
Reynolds became president and treasurer, re-
taining ninety-seven per cent of the stock. Mr.
Reynolds continued in the manufacture of shoes
with marked success until Jan. 1, 1908, when
he retired from active business, due to the fact
that he had entirely lost his sense of hearing,
which had been failing him for a number of
years, and he was finding it very difficult to
transact business with such an unpleasant hand-
icap, having been obliged to resort to the use
of a speaking tube for a number of years.
Mr. Reynolds has always had a fondness for
good horses, and for several years lived on and
conducted a large farm at Orange, which was
well stocked with fine bred cattle and horses,
until 1896, when he removed his residence to
the adjoining town of Athol, Mass. There he
still resides, although he retains his business
office in Orange, his time now being devoted to
looking after his various invested interests. In
1892 Mr. Reynolds built the Masonic block at
Orange, wliich is recognized as the most sub-
stantial and modern business structure in the
town, at a cost of over $50,000.
Fraternally Mr. Reynolds is a member of
various Masonic bodies, holding membership in
Paul Revere Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Satucket
Chapter, R. A. M., and Bay State Command-
ery. Knights Templar, all of Brockton ; he is
also a member of Aleppo Temple, Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. While a resident
of Brockton he was a member of the Commer-
cial Club, and now holds membership in the
Pequot Club, of Athol, which numbers among
its membership tlie leading business and pro-
fessional men of that community. In his polit-
ical views Mr. Reynolds is a stalwart Republi-
can, and a strong advocate of no-license.
On Nov. 6, 1878, Mr. Reynolds was united
in marriage with Mrs. Ellen M. (Phillips)
Drake, daughter of Benjamin F. and Clara Jane
(Smith) Phillips, of Stoughton, Mass., and
widow of the late Melvin Drake. Mr. and Mrs.
Reynolds have no children.
(IX) BioN Fourth Reynolds, the sixth
child of the late Charles Turner and Sarah
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
659
Stephens (Knowles) Reynolds, was born March
4, 1856, in North Bridgewater, now the city
of Brockton, Mass., at the old homestead on
Pleasant street, and acquired his early educa-
tional training in the district schools of his
neighborhood, attending the same until he was
about fifteen years of age. During the time not
spent in the schoolroom, and until he was nine-
teen years of age, he was kept busy at shoemak-
ing with his father, under whose training he
learned the details of the making of shoes from
the cutting of the stock to the finishing of the
same ready for the market. At the age of nine-
teen years he left his father's employ and en-
tered the shoe factory of his elder brother,
Lowell Mason Reynolds, as foreman of the
stitching room, remaining in this capacity until
1881, at which time he and his younger bro-
ther, Luke Webster Reynolds, became partners
in the business, which was then conducted un-
der the firm name of L. M. Reynolds & Co., he
continuing an active member of this firm for
a period of nine years. Deciding to enter busi-
ness on his own account, in 1890, Mr. Rey-
nolds withdrew from the firm of L. M. Reynolds
& Co. and established himself in the manufac-
ture of shoes, locating in a part of the A. C.
Thompson brick factory on Railroad avenue,
where he remained in business for about four
years. At the expiration of that time, his busi-
ness having outgrown his limited quarters, he
removed to the C. S. Pierce building on Mon-
tello street, where he continued for about ten
yeass. Having prospered in his venture, and
his business again having reached that point
where it required more commodious quarters,
he in May, 1906, purchased the Nahum John-
son shoe factory building, at the corner of War-
ren avenue and Dover street, which had pre-
viously been occupied as the Crawford shoe
factory, and here Mr. Reynolds has since con-
tinued in the manufacture of shoes, having met
with a marked success, as a result of his untir-
ing energy, perseverance and natural business
acumen. He gives employment to about one
hundred and fifty hands, his factory having a
daily capacity of about six hundred pairs of
shoes of the medium-fine grade which retails
for $4 or $5 per pair, known as the "Bion"
shoe ; this shoe enjoys a well merited reputation
for style and quality. The trade extends to
various parts of this country as well as to Cuba
and other foreign countries.
Fraternally Mr. Reynolds is a prominent
member of the Masonic organization, holding
membership in Paul Revere Lodge, A. F. &
A. M. : Satucket Chapter, R. A. M. ; Brockton
Council, R. & S. M. ; and Bay State Command-
ery, Knights Templar — of Brockton; and he
is also a member of Aleppo Temple, A. A. 0.
N. M. S., of Boston. Socially he is a member
of the Commercial Club, of Brockton, which
numbers among its members representatives of
the leading business and professional circles of
the city. Although a stanch supporter of the
principles of the Republican party and an ad-
vocate of protection to American industries,
Mr. Reynolds, like his father and brothers, has
never cared for nor sought public office, pre-
ferring to give his undividecl attention to his
business. He is a director of the Plymouth
County Trust Company, one of Brockton's
thriving financial institutions, and is also a
member of the Brockton Shoe Manufacturers'
Association. Mr. Reynolds possesses an ener-
getic nature, and is progressive in the manage-
ment of his affairs. Affable and courteous in
manner, he enjoys a large acquaintance in both
business and social circles.
On May 2, 1877, Mr. Reynolds was united
in marriage with Ida Louise Phillips, daughter
of Frank and Susan (Sprague) Phillips, of
North Easton, Mass., and this union has been
blessed with one daughter, Marion Susan Rey-
nolds, who was graduated from Smith College
with the class of 1906, and resides at home
with her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds affiliate with the Por-
ter Congregational Church, of Brockton, and
are liberal in their donations for the support
of the church as well as for charitable and
benevolent objects.
(IX) Luke Webster Reynolds, the young-
est son of the late Charles Turner and Sarah
Stephens (Knowles) Reynolds, was born Feb.
3, 1859, in North Bridgewater (now Brockton),
Mass., at the old homestead on Pleasant street,
and received his early educational training in
the district No. 10 school of his neighborhood,
which he attended iintil he was fifteen years
of age. While not at school, like his elder broth-
ers, his time was occupied in his father's shoe
factory, where he familiarized himself with the
details of shoemaking, and after leaving school
he continued employed in the factory of his
father until the latter discontinued business.
Mr. Reynolds then entered the employ of hie
brother, Lowell M. Reynolds, who was engaged
in the manufacturing of shoes, with whom he
remained until he had reached his majority. He
then accepted a position in the shoe factory of
his brother. Jay B. Reynolds, and became super-
intendent of the latter's shoe manufacturing
plant, in which capacity he continued for some
time, until he became a partner in the firm of
L. M. Reynolds & Co., shoe manufacturers. At
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SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
the end of six months, however, he returned to
his former position with Jay B. Reynolds. Upon
retiring from the latter position, in 1886, he
then engaged in the leather business on Elm
street, in partnership with John W. Snow, un-
der the firm name of Snow & Reynolds, this
partnership continuing until 1891, when Mr.
Reynolds sold out his interest to his partner
and engaged in the leather business on his own
account, continuing in that line for about two
years. In 1893 he again went to work for L.
M. Reynolds & Co., as an upper leather cutter,
continuing in that position until 1898, in
which year he formed the Bicycle Shoe Com-
pany, of Marlboro, Mass., with liis brother, L.
M. Reynolds, as partner, and removed the busi-
ness to Brockton, where in the zenith of this
firm's career from 100,000 to 125,000 pairs of
bicycle shoes were manufactured annually. Mr.
Reynolds was a partner in this business, of
which he was general manager during its ex-
istence. As the pleasure of bicycle riding be-
gan 'to wane the demand for their product de-
creased, and Mr. Reynolds eventually, in 1902,
purchased the interests of his brother, L. M.
Reynolds. He has since .continued to conduct
the business successfully, under the name of
Luke W. Reynolds. For several years Mr. Rey-
nolds' business was located in a portion of the
large brick manufacturing building of the
Brockton Last Company, on Court street, until,
in July, 1909, after the death of Nathaniel R.
Packard, he leased the latter's shoe factory on
Centre street, to which building he has removed
his business. Mr. Reynolds employs about one
hundred hands, and manufactures about six
hundred pairs of shoes per day. Since remov-
ing his business to the N. R. Packard factory,
he has added the making of welt shoes to retail
at $2.50 per pair, in connection with the man-
ufacturing of the McKay sewed shoes retailing
at $2 per pair, which has been his specialty
since engaging in business on his own account.
Like his brothers, Mr. Reynolds is a member
of the Masonic fraternity, holding membership
in Paul Revere Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Satucket
Chapter, R. A. M., Brockton Council, R. &
S. M., and Bay State Commandery, Knights
Templar, all of Brockton, and is also a mem-
ber of Aleppo Temple, Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, of Boston. He is also a member of
Harmony Lodge, No. 27, Knights of Pythias,
of Brockton, and for several years held member-
fihip in the Uniform Rank of the same lodge,
having been captain of the latter body.
Socially Mr. Reynolds is an active member
of the Commercial Club and the Merchants'
and Manufacturers' Club, of Brockton. When
but eighteen years of age he joined the Han-
cock Engine Company, and for a number of
years was an active member of that organiza-
tion, now being a member of the Veteran Fire-
men's Association, of Brockton. In political
faith he is a stanch adherent to the principles
of the Republican party. He affiliates with
the First Congregational Church of his native
city, of which his wife is a member.
On Oct. 21, 1891, Mr. Reynolds was united
in marriage with Elizabeth W. Adams, daughter
of Benjamin and Deborah (Ellis) Adams, of
Pocasset, Mass., and by this union there is one
daughter, Marie Adams Reynolds, who was born
April 27, 1894.
Of a genial, whole-souled nature, Mr. Rey-
nolds enjoys the acquaintance of a large circle
of business and social friends with whom he is
deservedly popular.
LANE (Rockland family). The Rockland
Lane family, the head of which was the late
Hon. Jenkins Lane, the founder of the exten-
sive shoe manufacturing establishment in that
town bearing the family name, a representative
in the Massachusetts General Court, etc., sev-
eral of whose sons grew up in the business and
followed in the father's footsteps as honorable
and successful business men and representative
citizens of their community, among whom were
the late Richmond Jenkins Lane, the present
Zenas M. Lane, the late Alonzo Lane and the
present Maj. Everett Lane (a gallant officer
of the Civil war), is one of long and honorable
standing in the Commonwealth, early at Dor-
chester, then in Hingham and still later in
Abington and Rockland. The especial family
alluded to in the foregoing is reviewed in what
follows from the ^immigrant Dorchester set-
tler to the present.
(I) William Lane, of the County of Norfolk,
England, was early at Dorchester, placed there
by one writer as early as 1635. He was a pro-
prietor in 1637. In his will, proved July 6,
165-1, he mentions two sons and four daugh-
ters : Elizabeth married Thomas River ; Mary
married (first) Joseph Long and (second) Jo-
seph Farnsworth ; Avis (or Avith) married
Thomas Lincoln, "the cooper" ; George ; Sarah
married Nathaniel Baker ; and Andrew.
(II) Andrew Lane had a house lot of five
acres on what became North street in Hingham.
He had other grants and bought in 1648 a
house lot of five acres with a dwelling and build-
ings thereon. He also purchased other prop-
erty. The Christian name of his wife was
Tryphena, and they resided on North street,
next west of the way leading to Squirrel Hill.
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
661
He died May 1, 1675. She died Jan. 2, 1706-
07, aged about ninety-five years. Their chil-
dren, all baptized in Hingham, were: Andrew,
Aug. 16, 1646; Mary, Aug. 16, 1646 (married
William Orcott) ; Abigail, Aug. 16, 1646 (mar-
ried Daniel Stodder) ; John, Jan. 30, 1647-48;
Ephraim, in February, 1649-50 ; Deborah, June
20, 1652 (married William Sprague) ; Joshua,
Aug. 20, 1654; Caleb, July 17, 1657; Hannah,
Sept. 30, 1658 (married Jeremiah Beal (2)).
(III) Andrew Lane (2), baptized Aug. 16,
1646, in Hingham, married Dec. 5, 1672, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Mark Eames. He was a
wheelwright and resided on what became Main,
nearly opposite Water street. He died Dec. 4,
1717, in his seventy-fifth year, and she Nov.
•21, 1727, aged eighty-three years. Their chil-
dren, all born in Hingham, were: John, born
Oct. 13, 1673; Elizabeth, born Nov. 20, 1675,
who married Samuel Low; Andrew, born Feb.
8, 1677-78; Bethia, born Aug. 20, 1680, who
married Simon Stodder; Isaac, bom April 8,
1683; Jonathan, born Dec. 27, 1685; and Solo-
mon, born Jan 12, 1693-94.
(IV) Jonathan Lane, born Dec. 27, 1685, in
Hingham, Mass., married Oct. 30, 1718, Abi-
gail, born March 3, 1693-94, in Hingham,
daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Lincoln)
Andrews. He was a farmer and resided on the
paternal homestead on Main, nearly opposite
Water street, Hingham, Mass. He died Oct.
15, 1777, in his ninety-second year. She died
May 26, 1763, aged sixty-nine years. Their
children, all born in Hingham, were : Jonathan,
Aug. 18, 1719; David, Oct. 19, 1722; Daniel,
May 28, 1724; Moses, Dec. 31, 1726; Abigail,
May 7, 1730; Euth, April 10, 1734 (married
Nathaniel Bangs) ; and Caleb, Nov. 22, 1739.
(V) Daniel Lane, born May 28, 1724, in
Hingham, Mass., married (first) May 19,
1745-46, Lydia, baptized Oct. 8, 1727, in Hing-
ham, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Whiting)
Tower. He married (second) Aug. 14, 1773,
Bethia Cushing. He was a cooper by occupa-
tion. About 1748 the family removed to the
town of Abington, Mass., where Mr. Lane died
March 13, 1816, in his ninety-second year. His
children by wife Lydia were : Lydia, born July
11, 1746, who married Jacob Smith, of Abing-
ton; Susanna, born in Abington Aug. 1, 1748,
who married Philip Shaw, of Abington ; Daniel,
born Feb. 25, 1750-51; Olive, born April 8,
.1754; Euth, born June 27, 1756; Christiana,
bom Nov. 29, 1760; Caleb, born Nov. 4, 1763;
Charles, born April 19, 1765, and Nabby, born
Dec. 11, 1768, who married Oliver Stetson.
(VI) Charles Lane, born April 19, 1765,
married May 25, 1788, Eachel, daughter of
David Jenkins, and settled on what became
Union and Market streets, in the eastern part
of the town. She died April 14, 1840, and lie
in September, 1849. Their children were:
David, born July 12, 1791, married Euth Lin-
coln; Charles, born Jan. 27, 1793, married
Sarah I.'eed; Eachel, born Sept. 14, 1797, died
Oct. 23, 1805; Eichmond, born Oct. U, 1799,
died in infancy; Jenkins, born July 24, 1801,
is mentioned below; Lydia, born Nov. 1, 1803,
married Harvey Torrey.
(VII) Jenkins Lane, son of Charles and
Eachel (Jenkins) Lane, was born in the eastern
part of Abington, Mass., July 24, 1801. He
acquired a common school education and then
learned the shoemaker's trade, working for a
number of years at the bench. He worked for
years for others before beginning business for
himself in a small way. He persevered, was
industrious, managed his affairs well and pros-
pered, his business gradually increasing as the
years came and went until he had developed a
great and profitable trade. In time he took
his sons into partnership with him, and the
concern did work to the extent of several hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars a year; and the
senior member of the firm lived to see the sales
reach a million dollars a year. During the
latter part of his life Mr. Lane turned the
business over to his sons and devoted his time
to inventions and the improvement of machin-
ery, an occupation that was much to his liking.
Mr. Lane was for many years not only a sub-
stantial man and citizen, prominent in business,
but a useful member of his community. He
represented Abington in the Massachusetts Gen-
eral Court in 1846, served for years as a. direc-
tor of the Abington National Bank and was the
first president of the Abington Savings Bank.
He was also for a time treasurer of the Hanover
Branch Eailroad Company.
On Dec. 22, 1825, Mr. Lane married Meheta-
bel Pratt Jenkins, daughter of Zenas Jenkins,
.and there came to them children born as fol-
lows: Eichmond Jenkins, Oct. 6, 1826; Zenas
M., Oct. 22, 1828; Mehetabel Pratt, May 9,
1831 (married Dec. 29, 1852, Eev. John W.
Harding, of Longmeadow, Mass., where she
now resides, a widow) ; Elvira, April 23, 1833
(married Oct. 8, 1852, Jefferson Shaw) ;
Alonzo, April 12, 1835; Everett, June 27,
1836; and Maria Jane, Sept. 28, 1839 (died
Oct. 6, 1840).
(VIII) Eichmond Jenkins Lane, son of
the late Hon. Jenkins and Mehetabel Pratt
(Jenkins) Lane, was bom Oct. 6, 1826, in
Abington, Mass. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of his native town, and after com-
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pleting his course tliere took another at the
high school at Quincy. He entered the otfice
of his father's shoe factory at an early age and
worked there for many years. He was subse-
quently promoted to a partnership and finally
became the head of tiie firm of Jenkins Lane &
Sons, which for many years was one of the
largest shoe companies in this section.
Mr. Lane during his early life took a promi-
nent part in town affairs and served in various
town offices. He was one of those who were in-
strumental in building tiic Hanover Branch
railroad and served for many years as a mem-
ber of the board of directors. He was also in-
terested for a number of years in the coal and
grain business now carried on under the name
of the Albert Culver Company. For many
years he was president of the Abington Nation-
al Bank and of the Rockland Savings Bank.
He was for forty-three years a member of the
First Congregational Church of his town and
for thirty years was parish treasurer of the so-
ciety. He was a deacon for twenty-one years
and superintendent of the Sunday-school for
about the same length of time.
Mr. Lane died at Hanson, Mass., Jan. 9,
1905, aged seventy-eight years. The funeral
services took place the following Thursday af-
ternoon at the residence of his brother, Alonzo
Lane, on South Union street, Rockland, Mass.
The services were conducted by Rev. Edgar C.
Wheeler, and the body was taken to Abington
for interment in Mount Vernon cemetery.
There were many handsome floral tributes.
On Dec. 22, 1845, Mr. Lane married Sarah
Ann Poole, who was born in Rockland, daugh-
ter of Micah H. and Sally (Hunt) Poole, and
died Jan. 7, 1897, at Longmeadow, Massachu-
setts.
(VIII) Zenas M. Lan?;, son of Jenkins and
Mehetabel Pratt (Jenkins) Lane, was born in
East Abington (now Rockland) Oct. 23, 1828.
He was educated in the public schools of the
town and at Andover Academy, and from an
early age was interested in the shoe manufac-
turing business with his father and brothers,
in what is now the town of Rockland, where
the firm of Jenkins Lane & Sons were the lead-
ing manufacturers. After the death of his
father he was similarly engaged in partnership
with his brother Richmond Jenkins Lane, un-
der the firm name of R. J. & Z. M. Lane, but
this continued for only a short time. Then he
became a partner with his brother Maj. Everett
Lane. In 1889 he withdrew from business and
has since led a retired life. Unassuming and
quiet, but genial and companionable, Mr. Lane
has made many friends of whose good will he is
keenly appreciative. PHs modest disposition,
however, has not prevented him from being a
good citizen or from helping his fellowmen
upon occasion, but he has never gone into any-
thing of a public nature. He is a Republican
in politics.
On Jan. 15, 1851, Mr. Lane married Emeline
Morse, daughter of Moses Morse, of Pawtucket,
R. I. Mrs. Lane died in Rockland Jan. 13,
1904.
(VIII) Aloxzo Lane, son of Hon. Jenkins
and Mehetabel Pratt (Jenkins) Lane, was born
April 12, 1835, in Abington, Mass., and was
educated in the public schools of the town.
When a young man he went into the shoe busi-
ness with his father and brothers under the
firm name of Jenkins Lane & Sons. He was
also for many years engaged in the leather busi-
ness in Boston as a member of the firms of
Lane, Pierce & Co., and A. & E. Lane, but re-
tired from that end of the shoe business many
years ago, and with' his brother, Everett Lane,
engaged in the tannery business at Sand Bank,
Altmar, N. Y. The tanneries w-ere destroyed
by fire a number of years ago and after that
time Mr. Lane withdrew to retired life. He
always took a deep interest in his native town,
and, while he never held office, he was always
ready with a pleasant word of encouragement
and always ready to help the town in any way
in liis power. He erected the large residence
on South Union street which he occupied for
many years. It was for years one of the best
in Rockland.
Mr. Lane married (first) Sept. 19, 1856,
Maria, daughter of Judson Smith, and they had
one child, Myra, who makes her home with her
step-mother and uncles, in Rockland, Mass.
Mr. Lane's second marriage was to Helen E.
Stetson, daughter of the late Martin S. Stet-
son, of Whitman, and they had one son, Jen-
kins Lane, now of San Francisco, Cal. Mr.
Lane died suddenly Sept. 18, 1907, at Long-
meadow, Mass. The body was returned to
Rockland for interment in Mount Vernon ceme-
tery, and the funeral services held from the
home of his brother, Zenas M. Lane, on Union
street, the Sunday afternoon following his
death, the officiating minister being Rev. Fred
Hovey Allen, of New York City, former pastor
of the First Congregational Church at Rock-
land.
(VIII) Ma.t. Eveuett Lane, son of the late
Hon. Jenkins and Mehetabel Pratt (Jenkins)
Lane, was born June 27, 1836, in East Abing-
ton, now Rockland, Mass. After being duly
educated he entered the boot and shoe manufac-
turing establishment of his father, and early
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663
in the Civil war from the counting room went
to the defense of his country, enlisting Aug.
28, 1868, in Company G, 43d Regiment, Mas-
sachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He entered the
service as private, was chosen captain of the
company, and Oct. 20tli following promoted
to major of the regiment. Although direct
from the office on entering the service he soon
became proficient in military tactics and often
was selected to command the battalion on drill
while at Kewbern, N. C. He took part with
the regiment in the battles of Kinston, White-
hall, Goldsboro and Blount's Creek, in North
Carolina, and while in command of a portion
of the regiment at Springbank, near Golds-
boro, became the target for three successive
shots from a Rebel sharpshooter posted in a dis-
tant tree. A corporal and a private of Com-
pany E were shot at this place, and the body
of the corporal could not be recovered. In
July, 1863, Major Lane was provost marshal
of Harper's Ferry and vicinity, with head-
quarters at Sandy Hook, Md., but by reason of
expiration of his term of service returned home
with his regiment and was mustered out at
Readville, Mass., July 30, 1863. While the
regiment was on the way home to be mustered
out, and while at Baltimore, Md., Major Lane
with a portion of his regiment volunteered dur-
ing the Gettysburg campaign, to go to the front,
and were attached to the 6th Corps, Army of
the Potomac. Major Lane is a member of
Hartsuff Post, No.' 74, G. A. R., of Rockland,
which he joined in 1890, and of the Military
Order of the Loval Legion of the United
States.
After the war Major Lane went to New Or-
leans in the interest of the firm of Jenkins
Lane & Sons, being thus engaged for twelve
years. In 1877 he formed a partnership with
his brother Zenas M., under the firm name of
Z. M. & E. Lane, shoe manufacturers, and they
did business together until 1882, when he be-
came interested with his brother Alonzo in the
leather business. He remained in this line for
twelve years, having a tannery at Sand Bank,
N. Y., and during ten years of this time they
"had a wholesale place in Boston. He is now
living retired, making his home in Rockland.
On June 84, 1857, Major Lane married
Sarah S. Warne, daughter of William M.
Warne, of Washington, New Jersey.
STETSON. (I) Robert Stetson, commonly
called Cornet Robert, because he was cornet of
the first Horse Company raised in Plymouth
Colony in 1658 or 1659, tradition says came
from the County of Kent, England. He set-
tled in Scituate, Mass., in 1634, in which year
he received from the Colony court quite a large
^rant of land, lying on the North river. His
liouse stood ui>on a sloping plain, near the
bank of the river, and an unfailing and valuable
spring, which supplied him and his descend-
ants with water for two hundred and more
years, still marks the spot. Pope in his "Pio-
neers of Massachusetts" calls him a carpenter,
of Duxbury, and has him constable March 7,
1648-43, and a freeman of 1653. He was a
very enterprising man from the time of his
first settlement in the Colony, and was held
in high esteem by his townsmen and by the
Colony in general. In 1656 he built a sawmill
on what was then called "third Herring brook,"
which was burned by the Indians in 1676. He
was a deputy to the General Court seventeen
years between 1654 and 1678. He was chosen
a member of the Council of War in 1661, and
in 1681 he was holding that office. In the war
with Philip and other Indians of different
tribes he was an active officer and rendered
valuable assistance. He made his will Sept.
4, 1708, being aged, which will was probated
March 5, 1702-03, in which he bequeathed to
wife Mary, sons Joseph, Benjamin, Samuel and
Robert. His children baptized at the Second
Church of Scituate were : Joseph, born in June,
1639; Benjamin, born August, 1641; Thomas,
born Dec. 11, 1643; Samuel, born in June,
1646; John, born in April, 1648; Eunice, born
April 28, 1650; Lois, born February, 1652;
and Robert, born Jan. 8!), 1653.
(II) Robert Stetson (8), son of Robert, born
Jan. 89, 1653, married in 1676, Joanna Brooks,
and his house was burned by the Indians in
that same year. He seems to have lived in
what became the town of Pembroke ; the latter
became a separate town in 1712, when Robert
Stetson and his son Isaac were heads of fami-
lies there. Almost all the descendants of these
two heads of families continued to live in Pem-
broke and vicinity; and the familv has been a
noted one, from the fact that its members have
been very extensively engaged in' the iron busi-
ness, and yet rank among the foremost of those
engaged in this business in Plymouth county,
or even in Massachusetts. Robert's children
were: Isaac, Timothy, Resolved, Sarah, who
married Ebenezer Bennett, of Middleboro, and
Nathaniel.
(III) Isaac Stetson, son of Robert (2), mar-
ried and had children: Abisha, born about
1706; Nathaniel, born about 1708; John, born
about 1710; Janet, baptized March 23, 1729,
at the age of seventeen (married Benjamin
Thomas); Peleg, born in 1714; Jerusha, born
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about 1718 (married Elisha Palmer) ; Agatha,
born about 1720 (married William Page) ;
Mary, born about 1722 (married Peleg West,
of Kingston).
(IV) Peleg Stetson, son of Isaac, born in
1714, married March 9, 1738, Mercy Ramsdell,
and lived in Abington, where he died in 1806,
aged over ninety years. His children were :
Isaac, born Aug. 23, 1738; Ephraim, born in
July, 1740, who died in April, 1743; Ephraim
(2), born March 28, 1743; Oliver, born in
1745; Levi, born in June, 1747; Betty, born in
April, 1749, who died young; Peleg, born in
April, 1751; Laban, born in August, 1753;
Betty (2), baptized Oct. 19, 1755; Hannah;
and Mercy.
(V) Ephraim Stetson, son of I'eleg, born
March 28, 1743, married Ruth Ford, and their
children were : Ephraim, Barnabas, Lydia
(married Daniel Barstow), Ruth (married
Ward Bates), and Mary (married Amos Ford).
(VI) Barnabas Stetson, son of Ephraim,
born April 27, 1775, married Oct. 10, 1802,
Lucy, daughter of Daniel and Betsej (Tilden)
Barstow, and lived in the town of Hanover,
Mass. Their children were: Amos, Lucy B.,
Martin S., Lydia, Julia Ann (married Samuel
Blake) and Barnabas. The father was a mem-
ber of the firm of B. & E. Stetson, his partner
being his brother, which firm carried on a large
mercantile business, operating stores at what is
now Rockland and Hanover Four Corners. He
was also extensively interested in other branches
of business — farming, brick manufacturing,
etc. He was an active, energetic business man.
(VII) Martin S. Stetson, son of Barnabas,
was born June 1, 1809, in East Abington, Mass.
He acquired his education in the district
schools of his native town and at the Bolton
(Mass.) Academy. At the age of twelve
years he began employment in the store of an
uncle in Hanover, Mass., with whom he con-
tinued several years until the death of a
brother made it necessary for him to return
home to assist his father. He remained at
home until he reached his majority, in the
meantime teaching winter school several terms
in East Abington and Hanover. In 1835, as-
sociated with Samuel Blake, Jr., he engaged in
the manufacture of boots and shoes, the firm
style being Stetson & Blake ; this was one of the
earliest firms so engaged in that vicinity. In
a few years this partnership was dissolved,
when Mr. Stetson carried on the business alone.
In 1840 he opened a store in Mobile, Ala., for
the sale of his product, this establishment being
in the charge of his brother, and through the
efforts of himself and brother, he going South
occasionally, an extensive business was devel-
oped in that section. From that time on until
the outbreak of the Civil war Mr. Stetson went
South in the interest of the business there-
yearly, where he passed the greater part of each
year. He maintained a pleasant home at East
Abington, to which he returned each summer
during his long stay in the South, later re-
moving to South Abington, now Whitman, just
prior to the Civil war. As early as 1850 he
had associated with him in business James B.
Studley, of Hanover, to whom latterly the ac-
tive management of the business was entrusted.
Suffice it to say of the Southern end of the
business that the losses to the house incurred
by the war were into the hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars.
Mr. Stetson was extensively known in and
about Mobile, where his reputation as a busi-
ness man and citizen was high. After the close-
of the war he returned to Mobile, where he was
well received and again established himself in
business and again enjoyed the confidence and
esteem of his Southern friends, and as well
again built up an extensive business. This he-
turned the management of over to a son in
1869 and he himself retired from active busi-
ness. From 1861 to 1865 Mr. Stetson had a
branch store in St. Paul, Minnesota. -
Mr. Stetson traveled quite extensively in his
own country. In 1870, on the completion of
the Union Pacific railroad, he joined the first
organized excursion — that of the Boston Board
of Trade — over it to California, Yosemite Val-
ley, etc. At Mobile he was a member of the-
Presbjrterian Church of the city. He was a
director of the Abington National Bank. He-
was a strong temperance man; was president
of the first young men's temperance society or-
ganized in Plymouth county.
Aside from being an able and successful
business man, for which he was admired, he-
had a kindly, generous nature which appealed
to all who knew him and his friends were-
legion. Ever straightforward and honorable in
all of his business and social relations of life,,
he had the copfidence of all who came in contact
with him and who esteemed and respected him
for these virtues. He had an erect, manly'
bearing, and was dignified and commanding in
person.
On Nov. 14, 1836, Mr. Stetson was married
to Eliza A., daughter of John Thomas, of Troy,
N. Y., where her father held the office of
chamberlain. Their children were : John T.,
deceased; Amos Sumner, deceased; Helen E.,
widow of Alonzo Lane; Julia B., deceased;,
and Virginia A., deceased.
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665
GEORGE HOWARD TALBOT, founder of
the Norton Mills Company, now the Talbot
Wool Combing Company, Inc., and a well-
known and prominent citizen of Norton, is a
descendant of an old established family of Bris-
tol county, ancient and honored in England as
well as America.
In 1035 A. D. Hugh Talebot granted a
charter to Trinite du Mont, Rouen, Normandy,
and 1066 A. D. le Sire Talebot, a Norman
Rnight, went into England with William the
Conqueror and fought under him at Hastings ;
his name is on the roll of Battle Abbey. There
were peers among the English Talbots, and no-
bles, gentlemen, scholars, and men famed in
the wars. In 1442 John Talbot was created
first Earl of Shrewsbury. Among some of the
more distinguished American Talbots may be
mentioned Governor Talbot of Massachusetts,
and Bishop Ethelbert Talbot, of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, Pennsylvania.
Here in New England, in the now Common-
wealth of Massachusetts, appears at Taunton
one Jared or Garratt Talbot, who was there
married April 1, 1664, to Sarah Andrews,
probably daughter of Henry Andrews, of that
town, and their children were: Jared, born
March 20, 1667; Mary, born Dec. 14, 1671;
Samuel, born Feb. 29, 1676; Josiah, born Oct.
12. 1678; and Nathaniel, born Feb. 21, 1681..
Jared Talbot (2), son of Jared and Sarah
(Andrews) Talbot, born March 20, 1667, in
Taunton, married May 4, 1687, Rebecca Hatha-
way. Mr. Talbot seemingly from the records
bore the title of captain. He was one of the
proprietors of the South Purchase, territory
bought from the Indians in 1672. This addi-
tion to Taunton began to be permanently set-
tled just after King Philip's war, 1675-76,
and Capt. Jared Talbot was one of the very
earliest settlers in it, and contemporaneous
with him were Ephraim Hathaway, Edward
Babbitt and Nicholas Stephens, of whom the
first named had eleven children, the other two
nine each. Captain Talbot and hi? wife lost
their first child, a son born March 26, 1688,
who died within a few weeks. They then had
children: Nathan (born April 4, 1690), Jo-
siah, Jacob, John, Elizabeth, Seth, Rebecca,
Ebenezer, and others to the number of four-
teen in all, several of whom died in infancy.
Out of the territory just alluded to — the
South Purchase — came the town of Dighton,
which was incorporated in 1712. In the pre-
liminary work bringing the new town into ex-
istence and in its early history the name of
Capt. Jared Talbot appears frequently, evi-
dencing his activity and prominence in the
community. He was the second town clerk
of Dighton, the first having been Joseph Deane.
Captain Talbot was one of the leading men of
the settlement and one of the fifteen signers
of an agreement made in 1708 with the east
side of the river to build a separate meeting-
house and support their own minister. At that
time Assonet Neck was a part of Taunton,
having been annexed in 1677, and constituted
a part of the lands forfeited by King Philip.
It was purchased from the governmemt and was
annexed to Taunton in 1682, and in 1799 was
set off as Berkley. It became a part of Digh-
ton on the latter's incorporation. May 30, 1712.
From the early period alluded to — from the
very dawn of civilization in Dighton to the
present — the Talbots have been identified with
the history of the town. From Dighton came
the Norton branch of the Talbot family.
Joseph Talbot married Nov. 11, 1742, Ruth
Reed, born Nov. 3, 1727, daughter of George
and Sarah Reed. Their children were: Seth,
born Nov. 20, 1743; John, born July 17, 1745;
Hannah, born March 9, 1747; David, bom
Nov. 19, 1748; Marian, born May 25, 1750;
and Joseph, born in 1752.
Joseph Talbot (2), son of Joseph, married
in 1773 Sarah Luther, and they lived in Digh-
ton, Mass. Their children were : Joseph, born
Dec. 11, 1773, who died young; Rebecca, born
April 30, 1775; Susannah, born April 1, 1777,
who married Jonathan Hathaway, and died
Sept. 20, 1822; John, born May 10, 1779; Si-
mon, born April 15, 1781 ; Mary, born March
15, 1784; Luther, born Dec. 28, 1786; and
William, born Jan. 22, 1789. Joseph Talbot
married for his second wife Annie Hathaway
(intentions of marriage published March 18,
1802), and their children were born as follows:
Sally, May 13, 1803 ; Joseph, Oct. 5, 1809. The
father died April 25, 1821.
Joseph Talbot (3), son of Joseph (2) and
Annie (Hathaway), was born in the town of
Dighton Oct. 5, 1809. Here he grew to man-
hood and engaged in the occupation of farm-
ing in the Broad Cove district of Dighton. He
spent his life there . and died in 1859, being
buried in the Dighton cemetery. He married
in Dighton, Dec. 20, 1835, Mary Luther Pratt,
born Oct. 21, 1811, daughter of Lemuel and
Alma Pratt, and their children were: William
B., who followed the trade of mason, now re-
tired and residing in New Bedford ; James A.,
who resides on the homestead in Dighton;
Charles, who resides in Dighton; George How-
ard, who is mentioned below; Lemuel Pratt;
and Mary Ann, who married Benjamin Sim-
mons, and (second) a Mr. Knight, and resides
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in Pawtucket, R. I. The mother died on the
homestead in 1863, and was buried in the
Dighton cemetery.
George Howard Talbot, son of Joseph (3)
and Mary L. (Pratt), was born March 17,
1846, in Dighton, Mass. He attended the com-
mon schools of his native town and supple-
mented this with a few sessions at a private
school in the nearby town of Somerset, taught
by Henry T. Buffington, a well-known teacher
of that section. His fatlier dying when he was
but twelve and his mother some four years
later, he was early in a manner thrown upon
his own resources, thus becoming self-reliant.
At the age of fifteen he found employment in
the Dighton Tack Works, where he was em-
ployed a few months. He then turned his at-
tention to the farm, hiring to Capt. Frank
Hathaway, who owned a farm in that section.
After a year in agricultural work he again
turned his attention to the factory, this time
engaging with the Dighton Woolen Company,
operated by Timothy Dunlap, and learned the
busmess of sorting wool. With this company,
saving an interval of several months, he con-
tinued until the destruction of the plant by
fire some three years later. During the four
months' interval alluded to above he was in
charge of a wool sorting establishment at Bux-
ton, Maine. Following the destruction of the
Dighton Woolen Mill he continued in the same
line of employment in Stillwater, R. I., and
also at Providence, Rhode Island.
In the autumn of 1867 Mr. Talbot came to
the town of Norton, where he assumed charge
of wool sorting for the concern of Williams &
Co., who were doing a small business in that
line at the Willis mills, on the Rumford river.
A year later the fii'm leased the property,
which stood on the sife^ of the present mill of
Mr. Talbot and was then known ,as the Cen-
tre mills. In 1869 Daniel S. Pratt & Co. of
Boston came into possession of the business of
Williams & Co., and at this time Mr. Talbot
first became an interested party in the con-
cern; this was a one-ninth share. He had had,
however, since June, 1868, entire charge of
the mills. The firm of Pratt & Co. was dis-
solved in January, 1870, and the business was
continued by Mr. F. Q. Story, former partner
of Mr. Pratt and Mr. Talbot, the former own-
ing two thirds and Mr. Talbot one third of
the business.
In February, 1872, Messrs. Story and Talbot
purchased the ground on which the mills are
now located, including all of the improvements
thereon. The business kept increasing as time
passed and it was not long ere it had outgrown
the accommodations, and in the year 1874 they
built a large addition to the plant and greatly
increased the equipment and working facilities.
In 1878, owing to failing health, Mr. Story
sold his interests to Mr. Talbot and from that
time on the latter has continued to be identi-
fied with the business, carrying it on alone un-
til he associated his sons with him. The busi-
ness was incorporated as the Norton Mills
Company, with George H. Talbot as treasurer,
and his son Walter H. as president and son
Francis S. as secretary.
In 1880 Mr. Talbot saw it was expedient to
the growing business to still further enlarge
the plant and he added thereto another three-
story building, and put in new and more mod-
ern machinery, by which was increased the
capacity for more rapid and effective work.
The power is furnished by a waterfall, with
an au.xiliary steam and electric power plant for
use in dry weather. The bxisiness is exclusively
wool washing and job work. Mr. Talbot was
one of the first engaged in the business and
when he commenced in this line here he was
alile, by hard work, to scour five bags of wool
a day, his work being done for the wool mer-
chants of Boston and Providence. At that
time his plant was one of the only two of the
kind in the country. In 1890 the establish--
ment was almost wiped out by fire, but two
years later he rebuilt, with a capacity of
7,000,000 pounds- yearly.
'J'he Norton Mills Company added another
byanch to the business, known as the making
of wool tops, and carding and combing. In
1909 the entire business was incorporated as
the Talbot Wool Combing Company, Inc., of
which Walter H. Talbot is president and
Francis S. Talbot secretary and treasurer. The
mills now cover five acres, and the work is
so well known that wool from all over the
world is sent there to be cleaned, 84,000 pounds
a day being the average output, representing,
approximately, wool from 14,000 sheep. The
work is chiefly for the Boston and New York
markets. Employment is given to upward of
two hundred persons.
It goes without saying that Mr. Talbot has
made a success of the business he has been en-
gaged in practically from boyhood and with
which he is most familiar. He started life
a poor boy, worked hard, and is entirely self-
made. He is a stanch Republican, but not a
politician, public-spirited and enterprising,
and in all a substantial and valuable citizen.
On Nov. 18, 1873, Mr. Talbot married Delia
M. Storer, who was born May 28, 1849, daugh-
ter of George and Delia Storer, of Norton.
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They have had children as follows: Walter
Howard, born Aug. 15, 1874; Francis Story,
born March 2, 1878; Alfred Pratt, born Oct.
15, 1882, who died young; and Gladys Irma,
born April 14, 1894, who was educated in the
public schools of Norton, Quincy Mansion
School, at Wollaston, Mass., and Miss Brown's
Select School of Boston.
Walter Howard Talbot, son of George H.,
was born in Norton Aug. 15, 1874, and was
educated in the public schools and Bristol
Academy at Taunton. He went into the mill
with his father and later became interested in
the enterprise, to such an extent that when the
business was incorporated he was elected presi-
dent, which office he held until the Talbot
Wool Combing Company, Inc., was formed and
he became president of the latter. He married
Jessie Mattox, and they have one child, George
Howard.
Francis Story Talbot, born in Norton March
2, 1878, was educated in the local public
school and in the Bryant & Straiton business
college at Providence, R. I. He entered his
father's business, becoming secretary, and upon
the formation of the new corporation he be-
came secretary and treasurer. He married
Adelayde Bemis, of Foxboro, Mass., and they
have three children. Marguerite, Gertrude and
Herbert Hersey.
SHAW. (I) Abraham and Bridget (Best)
Shaw came from the village of Northowram,
parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, and
settled in Watertown, Mass., where he .was
made freeman March 9, 1636. He was one of
the first to subscribe to the Covenant. His
house was burned in October, 1636, and he soon
after sold his town lot and farm of eight and a
half acres and removed to Dedham, Mass., for
the incorporation of which he, with his eldest
son Joseph and twenty others, had signed a
petition on "the 6th of the 7th month ( Sept. )
1636." With his associates he built the old
dam across the Charles for a gristmill, about
-three quarters of a mile southwest of the new
bridge. He'was made freeman March 9, 1637,
and the same year was granted a monopoly of
one half of the coal and iron to be found in the
Common Lands, but died next year, 1638. His
•will bears no date, but mentions his town lot
in Dedham, also his two sons and two daugh-
ters, Joseph, Mary, John and Martha, the two
latter being infants, Joseph and John to have
his estate in Dedham.
From this Abraham Shaw have sprung some
strong, forceful men and women, men who were
college-bred and entered the learned profes-
sions and formed alliances with the first fami-
lies of their section and day. Some family his-
tory and genealogy of the Shaws follows in
chronological order.
(II) John Shaw, of Weymouth, son of Abra-
ham, born in England, was baptized in Eng-
land, May 21, 1630. He died at Weymouth,
Sept. 16, 1704. He married Alice Phillips,
daughter of Deacon Nicholas Phillips, of Ded-
ham and Weymouth, and they had children:
John, born about 1655 ; Elizabeth, born in
1656; Abraham, born in 1657; Mary, born in
1660; Nicholas, born in 1662; Joseph, born in
1664; Alice, born in 1666; Hannah, born in
1668; Benjamin, born in 1670; Abigail, born
in 1672; and Ebenezer, born in 1674.
(III) Benjamin Shaw, born June 16, 1670,
at Weymouth, married Hannah Rogers, and
lived and died in Taunton, dying June 16,
1723. His wife Hannah died at Taunton, May
26, 1723, aged forty-nine years.
(IV) Samuel Shaw, born at Weymouth,
Mass., in 1698, married Elizabeth Hodges,
daughter of Henry Hodges. Samuel Shaw
died at Taunton, Mass., in 1730, aged thirty-
three years. His widow married (second)
Isaac Sampson and (third) Deacon Edward
Richmond.
(V) Joseph Shaw, born at Taunton, Mass.,
Sept. 2, 1725, wa^ the first of the name in the
town of Raynham, which was set ofl' from
Taunton in 1731, and here he engaged in farm-
ing. He married Oct. 18, 1748, his cousin,
Mary Shaw, daughter of Jonathan and Mercy
(Mason) Shaw. Joseph Shaw died at Rayn-
han, Mass., April 20, 1808, aged eighty-three
years; Mary Shaw, born Oct. 19, 1729, died at
Raynham Oct. 15, 1816. Of their children,
the following are found in the Vital Records:
Joseph, born April 1, 1750 (died April 2,
1750); Joseph (2), born Nov. 6, 1751; and
Silas, born July 26, 1754. However, another
account says they had : Joseph, Samuel, Silas
and Polly. Joseph Shaw of Raynham was in
the Revolutionary war. He was a private in
Capt. John King's company. Col. Timothy
Walker's regiment; enlisted May 3, 1775, and
served three months and five days. His name
also appears on company return dated Oct. 6,
1775. In bis last years he received a pension
from the government.
(VI) Samuel Shaw, son of Joseph, born at
Raynham, Mass., April 19, 1772, was a farmer
and also a house carpenter there. He had ex-
ceptional talent for music, taught singing
school winter evenings, in the neighborhood,
and also composed music and set words to
music. He married April 21, 1793, Abigail
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Hall, born at Raynham Sept. 21, 1771, daugh-
ter of Seth Hall. He died at Raynham April
20, 1840, aged sixty-eight years. She died
there aged eighty-seven years. Their children
were as follows: Mary, born Sept. 13, 1794,
married Josephus Bumpus, of Middleboro;
Samuel, born Sept. 24, 1795, is mentioned be-
low; Diadamia, born July 29, 1797 (died in
March, 1882, aged eighty-five), married (first)
Abiather Dean, of Taunton, and (second)
William Ramsdell, of Middleboro; Isaac H.,
born Feb. 4, 1800, died at sea in June, 1844;
Susannah H., born June 4, 1802, married
Henry Hall, of Westmoreland, N. H. ; Linus
H., born Nov. 29, 1804, married Louisa Alden,
and died in 1866; Alanson, born May 6, 1807,
died March 15, 1809; Abigail, born Jan. 10,
1810, married a Mr. Briggs, of West Bridge-
water, and (second) Joshua Hall, of East
Westmoreland, N. H. ; Lucinda, born in 1814,
died in that same year.
(VII) Samuel Shaw, Jr., born Sept. 24,
1795, at the family homestead in Raynham
(the house which is over two hundred and fifty
years old, is still standing, and is occupied by
Samuel, Jr.'s son, James H. Shaw), resided
there to the end of his days, dying March 4,
1881, at the age of eighty-five. In his old age
he drew a pension for his services in the war of
1812. He was twice married, first on Aug. 25,
1817, to his cousin, Mrs. Rachel (Shaw) Bar-
den, of Raynham, daughter of Silas and Eliza-
beth (Staples) Shaw. She died at Raynham
March 9, 1840, aged forty-eight years, and sub-
sequently he married Mrs. Farnham. Seven
children were born to the first union : Caroline
E. married Dr. Daniel Briggs, of Philadelphia,
and died in Brockton; Francis Marion is men-
tioned below ; James Harmon resided at the
old homestead in Raynham ; Alanson died in
1854; William Wallace died aged fifty yea-rs;
Oliver Perry died at the age of thirty-five ; An-
drew Jackson died when eighteen years old.
(VIII) Francis Marion Shaw, son of
Samuel, Jr., was for years a well-known busi-
ness man of Brockton, a gentleman of wide and
varied experience in life. He served his coun-
try in time of war in both the army and the
navy; traveled far and journeyed in distant
lands; and held numerous positions of trust
and responsibility, serving the interests of im-
portant industrial enterprises, and lending a
hand sagaciously to the conduct of public af-
fairs.
Mr. Shaw was born Nov. 3, 1825, at Rayn-
ham, Mass., being a representative of the fourth
generation of Shaws in that ancient town of
Bristol county. He was one of several boys in
this patriotic family who bore the names of
martial heroes. In his early years attending
the district school, a mile from his home, he
acquired a good knowledge of the common
English branches. The schoolroom was heated
from a fireplace, on whose ample hearth, in.
winter days, blazed a fire of huge logs and
brushwood. The furniture and all the appli-
ances were of primitive fashion. But text-
books were well conned, hard sums were tri-
umphantly ciphered out, minds grew attentive
and ale"rt; and not the least valuable lessons
learned were of resolute self-reliance and vig-
orous endeavor.
At the youthful age of fourteen Francis M.
Shaw joined the army of wage earners by go-
ing to work in a nail factory at Titicut. He
was next, for about a year, employed in the
East Taunton Iron Works; and from there he
went to a manufacturing place on the Schuyl-
kill river in Pennsylvania, still later finding a
situation in the Duncannon Iron Works — all
this before he was eighteen. At that age he
took a new departure, embarking on the "Wil-
liam and Eliza," a four-boat whale-ship, for a
four years'" cruise, sailing around Cape Horn,
stopping at Valparaiso and the Sandwich Is-
lands, both on the outward trip and the return
voyage, spending at one time six months at
Honolulu. In 1846 they were taking in oil at
Japan; while in the China sea they were in a
typhoon, and had a narrow escape from de-
struction. At the Cannibal Islands they en-
gaged in traffic with the natives, bartering beads
for hogs ; and young Shaw there sold the king's
son one of two violins that he had made him-
self, the other still being in the possession of his
son, Linus H. Shaw. Among other places that
he visited were the Samoan islands and New
Zealand.
Reaching home on the Fourth of July, 1848,
a man of twenty-two, with mind broadened and
matured, he shortly after went into the shoe
business, some branch of which he followed for
five or six years. Then he bought a thirty-
acre farm, and built a small shoe factory there-
on. In this he set up the firs! pegging ma-
chine that was brought into Raynham. In
1860 his factory was burned down, and in
1862 he removed to Abington Center. In the
following summer he enlisted in the 9th Mas-
sachusetts Battery, and, being sent into the
field, reached Gettysburg just after the battle
was over. Orders coming for the discharge of
all sailors from the ranks, Private Shaw en-
listed on the United States steamship "San
Jacinto," and was appointed paymaster's stew-
ard. At Key West, where the steamer touched.
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the yellow fever was raging. They there took
on Admiral Bell, and returned to New York,
whence they were ordered to St. John, N. B.,
after the pirate Sims. Losing two boats in a
^ale off Cape Hatteras, they put into Kittery
navy-yard, and from there went to Fortress
Monroe. While cruising among the Bahama
islands on the watch for Rebel vessels, the "San
Jacinto" was wrecked on "No Name Key," and
went to pieces. The crew remained on the is-
land eighteen days, subsisting on what could be
eaved from the wreck; and for water brought
to them in boats by the natives the captain paid
three hundred dollars in gold. The men were
rescued by the United States steamship "Talla-
poosa," which took them to Boston. They had
saved ten thousand dollars from the sunken
ship.
On receiving his discharge in July, 1865,
Mr. Shaw went back to Abington, but soon re-
moved to North Bridgewater. For some time
he traveled for David Whittemore & Co., manu-
facturers of shoe machines, putting up ma-
chines in Boston and vicinity. In 1871 he
went abroad in the interests of Mr. Whitte-
more, and sold machines in London and Glas-
gow, visiting also Dublin, Paris and other
places during his absence of eight months. Re-
ceiving word while at Hamburg that the
Whittemore manufactory had been burned, he
returned to Massachusetts. In the year 1873
he had charge of the Boston Shoe Machinery
Company's exhibit at the Vienna E.xposition.
Among other illustrious visitors who came to
view the American machinery were the Em-
peror Francis Joseph and his wife, the Em-
press. Mr. Shaw availed himself of the oppor-
tunity afforded by his six months' sqjourn in
Europe to visit the Alps and other points of
interest.
Returning to Massachusetts, he bought out
a factory on High street, Boston, and for three
years carried on the business of manufacturing
pasted insoles and heel stock. His next en-
terprise was undertaken in Brockton, where he
established the leather and remnant business
on Railroad avenue, and the Naplitha Extract-
ing Works on Center street, now carried on un-
der the name of F. M. Shaw & Son, from wliich
he retired on account of failing health, since
which time the business has been carried on by
his son, Francis E., under the same firm name.
Previous to this last venture Mr. Shaw had
bought an interest in the Boston Rivet Com-
pany, and, as a representative of the company,
had made, in 1875, another visit to Europe.
He crossed and recrossed the Atlantic twice
after that time — namely, in 1883 and 1885 —
and also traveled in California and other parts
of the great West.
Mr. Shaw was a member of the Know-Noth-
ing party during the short existence of that
political combination in the fifties. He was a
stanch Republican from the organization of the
party; and was a delegate to the convention
at Worcester that nominated for the chief mag-
istracy of the State John A. Andrew, since re-
nowned as this Commonwealth's war governor.
Mr. Shaw served as a member of the council of
Brockton for two years. He belonged to
Fletcher Webster Post, No. 13, Grand Array of
the Republic, of which he was chaplain for
several years; and served as a delegate to four
Grand Army conventions, including that held
in Denver. In religious faith Mr. Shaw was a
follower of Swedenborg, and was a member of
the Church of the New Jerusalem at Abington,
Mass. He died at Brockton, Aug. 22, 1900, in
his seventy-fifth year.
Mr. Shaw was twice married. His first wife,
Mary L. Eaton, of Raynham, Mass., daughter of
Charles and Emeline (Leonard) Eaton, died
leaving six children, as follows : Emma E. mar-
ried Edward Bryant, of Brockton; Linus H. is
"mentioned below; Alice L. married David T.
Burrell, of Brockton; Francis E. is mentioned
below; Mary E. is the wife of Sidney Perkins,
and resides at Savin Hill, Boston ; Samuel mar-
ried Sarah Ryder, of Middleboro, in which town
he is engaged in the manufacture of shoes as
junior member of the firm of Leonard & Shaw.
On Nov. 25, 1861. Francis M. Shaw married
(second) Harriet B. Bates, daughter of Rufus
B. Bates, of Abington, who survived him, and
resides in Brockton. To this union was born
one son, Norman B., who married Lila S.
Copeland, of Raynham, and they reside in
Brockton, where he is a member of the Opera
House orchestra ; they have one son, Lawrence,
who is a graduate of the School of Technology
at Boston.
(IX) Linus Hall Shaw, eldest son of the
late Francis M. and Mary L. (Eaton) Shaw,
was born Aug. 23, 1851, in Raynham, Mass.,
and acquired his early education in the schools
of his native town, of Abington and of North
Bridgewater, his parents removing to the latter
place when he was about fourteen years of age.
After finishing his schooling, he early acquired
a knowledge of shoemaking through employ-
ment in various factories of the town, eventu-
ally engaging in the manufacture of shoes on
his own account. For a period of about twenty
years Mr. Shaw was thus engaged, for a time
as a partner with James Sidney Allen and in
company with James C. Tannatt. In 1906 Mr.
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Shaw established himself in the manufacture
of men's fine shoe heels, organizing the Acme
Heel company. This concern's product is used
by the high-grade shoe manufacturers in the
making of shoes ranging in price from $5 to
$8, at retail. The very best quality of heels
is manufactured by the Acme Heel Company,
used in the construction of the finest men's
shoes made, in various parts of the world, large
shipments being made to leading shoe manufac-
turing concerns throughout the country. This
concern gives employment to about seventy-
five hands, and since its first inception the vol-
ume of business has steadily increased. A nat-
ural-born mechanic, Mr. Shaw has invented and
has patented various machines and appliances
used in tlie 7nanufacture of shoes, upon which
he is still receiving royalties.
Fraternally Mr. Shaw is a member of Paul
Eevere Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Brockton.
In political faith he is a Republican, but has
never cared for nor sought public preferment.
In religion he is a Unitarian, holding member-
ship in the Unity Church, of Brockton.
On Jan. 1, 1873, Mr. Shaw was united in
marriage with Abbie Pierce Dunham, daughter
of Lysander and Sarah (Simmons) Dunham,
of Plymouth, Mass., and this union has been
blessed with children as fallows : Mary Frances
is the wife of Fred B. Leonard, of Brockton,
where he is teller of the Plymouth County Trust
Company, and they have two children, Ruth
and Warren ; Chester Earl married Lena Bald-
win, of Middleboro, where he is connected with
Leonard & Shaw, shoe manufacturers ; Frank
E., superintendent of the Acme Heel Company,
married May E. Brown, of Brockton.
(IX) Francis E. Shaw, son of the late
Francis M. and Mary L. (Eaton) Shaw, was
born Feb. (5, 1856, in Raynham, Mass. His
schooling was acquired in the common schools
and the high school of North Bridgewater, to
which town his parents removed when he was
only about nine years old. After leaving school
Mr. Shaw entered the employ of bis father, in
the manufacture of heels and shoe findings,
continuing in his employ until he purchased
the business, in 1890, and he continued to con-
duct it under the firm name of F. M. Shaw &
Son until 1903, in which year it was incorpo-
rated under tlie laws of Massachusetts as the F.
M. Shaw & Son Company, capital stock $100,-
000, with the following officers : Francis E.
Shaw, president; Ernest L. Shaw, treasurer;
and Herbert F. Bryant, secretary. This con-
cern is extensively engaged in the manufacture
of shoe heels and findings, and also deals in
leather remnants of all kinds, and is well known
to the shoe trade generally.
Fraternally Mr. Shaw is prominently identi-
fied with the Masonic organization, holding;
membership in Paul Revere Lodge, A. F. & A.
M., of which he is past worshipful master;
Satucket Chapter, R. A. M. ; Brockton Council,
R. & S. M.; and Bay State Commandery,
Knights Templar, of which he is past eminent
commander. In political faith he is a stanch
supporter of the principles of the Republican
party, and has served the city as a member of
the common council for two years; for several
years he was a trustee of the Public Library.
Mr. Shaw is an active member of the Unity
Church, of Brockton, and for several years has
served as chairman of the standing committee
of the church.
By his first wife, Jennie Perkins, Mr. Shaw
had one daughter, Lena F. His second wife,
who was Hattie E. Wilde, daughter of Brad-
ford Wilde, of Brockton, passed away in Brock-
ton June 21, 1904. Mr. Shaw has since mar-
ried (third) Mrs. Isabelle Prior, of Boston.
ALMY (Dartmouth-Boston family). The
origin of the Almy family of Rhode Island and
Massachusetts, which for the past two hundred
and fifty aiul more -years has been well and
prominently represented in many of the towns
of both Commonwealths, is traced back to Wil-
liam Almy, who was born in England in the
year 1601.
It is here, however, the purpose to review,
and that briefly, but one branch of the Almy
family — that which later on located in the an-
cient town of Dartmouth, thence went to Bos-
ton, where several of the sons of the late Thomas
Almy became most enterprising and progres-
sive merchants, and have been followed by their
sons and jierhaps grandsons. Reference is
made to the brothers, the late William and Fred-
erick Almy of the extensive dry goods establish-
ment of Messrs. Almy, Patterson & Co., and
their successors. There follows the Almy
lineage and family history of the younger mem-
bers of the Dartmouth-Boston Almy family
from the immigrant settler, chronologically ar-
ranged.
(I) William Almy, who was born in England
in 1601, died in 1676. He came to this country
prior to 1630, but returned almost immediately
to England, coming here again in 1635 in the
ship "Abigail," and bringing with him his wife
Audrey and two children, Ann and Christopher.
He first located in Lynn, Mass., later, in 1637,.
was at Sandwich, and on Nov. 14, 1644, had
land granted him at Wading River, Portsmouth,
R. I. Here the balance of his life was spent.
In 1655 he was made a freeman, juryman in
1656, and commissioner in 1656, 1657 and
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1663. His will was proved April 23, 1677.
His daughter Ann was born in 1687, and his
son Christopher in 1632.
(II) Christopher Almv, son of William, born
in 1632, died Jan. 30, 1712. He was made a
freeman in l6o8. In 1667 he and others
bought lands of the Indians in Monmouth, N.
J., and he lived there some years, returning to
Rhode Island before the year 1680. On March
5, 1680, he and several others bought Pocasset
(now Tiverton) lands for £1,100, he having
three and three fourths shares out of thirty
shares in the whole. He was made a deputy
in 1690, and also assistant. On Feb. 27, 1690,
he was elected governor, but refused to serve
for reasons satisfactory to the Assembly. This
was the first election of governor after the
deposition of Andros. In 1693 he was sent to
England as a messenger from Rhode Island,
and on Aug. 2-ith of that year he delivered an
address and his own petition to Queen Mary,
stating the grievances of the Colony and pray-
ing that she may grant such encouragement
therein as she see fit. The Assembly allowed
him £135, 10s., 8d. for his charge and expense
in England for the Colony's use. On July 9,
1661, Christopher Almy married Elizabeth
Cornell, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Cor-
nell, and they had children : Sarah, born April
17, 1662; Elizabeth, Sept. 29, 1663; William,
Oct. 27, 1665; Ann, Nov. 29, 1667; Christo-
pher, Dec. 26, 1669; Rebecca, Jan. 26, 1671;
John, April, 1673 (died in 1673) ; John (2) ;
Job, and Catherine.
(III) William Almy, son of Christopher,
born Oct. 27, 1665, married (first) Deborah
Cook, daughter of John and Mary (Borden)
Cook, and (second) Hope Borden, born March
3, 1685, daughter of John and Mary Borden.
Mr. Almv resided in Tiverton, R. I. He died
July 6, 1747, and his wife Hope died in 1762.
His children, all born to the first marriage,
were: Mary, born Aug. 7, 1689; John, Oct. 10,
1692; Job, April 28, 1696; Elizabeth, Nov. 14,
1697; Samuel, April 15, 1701; Deborah, July
27, 1703; Rebecca, Oct. 14, 1705; William and
Joseph, Oct. 3, 1707.
(IV) Job Almy, son of William and Deborah
(Cook), born April 38, 1696, married Lydia,
born July 8, 1700. Their children were: Deb-
orah, born Dec. 5, 1719, married in 1738 John
Slocum; Freelove, born April 18, 1723, married
in 1742 Edward Springer; Samuel, born Sept.
20, 1725, married in 1746 Sarah Wood; Joseph,
born Nov. 21, 1727, married in 1750 Abigail
Sisson ; Job, born Oct. 10, 1730, married in
1750 Ann Slocum; Lydia, born Feb. 19, 1732-
33, married Benjamin Akin, and maybe in 1750
John Wing; Thomas, born Nov. 5, 1735, died
April 9, 1737; Christopher, born May 29, 1738,
married in 1762 Elizabeth Sanford; and Hope,
born April 14, 1746, married in 1763 William
Howland.
(V) Christopher Almy (2), son of Job and
Lydia, born May 29, 1738, married in 1762
Elizabeth Sanford. Their children were :
Peleg, born Sept. 2, 1764, married in 1787 Deb-
orah Almy; Giles, born April 29, 1766, mar-
ried in 1787 Mary Macomber; Benjamin was
born March 21, 1768; Freelove, born March
16, 1770, married in 1789 William Cory; Rich-
ard, born June 22, 1773, married in 1799 Pa-
tience Wilcox; Thomas was born April 22,
1775. What is known as the mansion house on
the old Job Almy place in Westport stands near
the road, faces south and commands a magnifi-
cent view of the Atlantic ocean south and west
of the Elizabeth islands. It is the only two-
story gambrel-roofed house in old Dartmouth,
and belongs to the latest variety of that type.
Job Almy owned the farm, and in his will of
1771 he devises his estate to his'four sons; and
in the division in 1778 Joseph and Christopher
took the part on the east side of the road, and
that on the west side was taken by Job and
Samuel. To his wife he gives "the Eastern
most great room, bed room adjoining, cellar
under and chamber, and attic over the same."
This can only apply to the large house which in
another part of the will he describes as "my
new dwelling house," which he specially devised
to his son Joseph. It is safe to conclude that
this house was built between 1765 and 1770.
This land originally belonged to Hugh
Mosher, who sold it to William Almy, who was
the owner in 1710, and this large farm has re-
mained in the Almy family ever since. The
original house has probably been removed or
destroyed. The small one-story gambrel was
erected about 1730, some distance east of the
road, but within recent years was moved to its
present location and has been since used as the
home of the manager of the farm. It belongs
to the variety that was common in this section
between 1725 and 1740.
(VI) Thomas Almy, son of Christopher and
Elizabeth (Sanford), born April 22, 1775, mar-
ried in 1798 Sally Gifford, born June 10, 1779,
daughter of William and Patience GifEord. Mr.
Almy, who was somewhat noted for his great
strength, was a carpenter by trade. He became
a merchant at Smith Mills, then a farmer. He
was a man of good judgment, and was active in
the public affairs of the town ; liked the old
muster days of the State militia. He loved a
good horse and his favorite means of travel was
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by horseback. He was a member of the Society
of Friends. He died Nov. 23, 1868. His wife
died June 13, 1848. Their children were : Wil-
liam, Silence, Frederick and Henry.
(VII) William Almy (3), son of Thomas
and Sally (Gifford), was born Oct. 10, 1798,
on the old Almy homestead in Dartmouth,
Mass. He passed his childhood and youth on
his father's farm, receiving in the way of an
education what the neighborhood district school
afforded. Early in life he concluded to become
a merchant, and with this end in view when
thirteen years of age walked from his home near
Horse Neck, carrying his shoes in his hand as
a matter of economy, to Russell's Mills, where
he began his business career in the store of the
late Abraham Barker. In a few years he re-
moved to New Bedford, and was employed as
bookkeeper in the store of William H. Allen
and the late Gideon Allen, and also in the
counting room of the late John Avery Parker.
Subsequently he went to Boston, and found em-
ployment in the best school possible for a mer-
chant— the counting room of the late A. & A.
Lawrence. Soon after attaining his majority,
and doubtless under the kind auspices of his
employers, he formed a partnership with a fel-
low clerk named Dexter, establishing the busi-
ness which under the firm name of Dexter &
Almy, Almy, Blake & Co., Almy, Patterson &
Co., Almy, Hobart & Co., and Almy & Co., he
successfully pursued for nearly fifty years ; this
was the importing and jobbing of white goods.
Cool, clear-headed and sagacious, no man stood
higher in the confidence and esteem of his fel-
lows than William Almy. He achieved a hand-
some fortune for his time, but secured some-
thing far better, a reputation for spotless integ-
rity, and unblemished honor.
For many years Mr. Almy was a director in
the Eagle Bank, Boston, and for a number of
3'ears his firm was selling agent for various
cotton and woolen mills, among these being
the celebrated Wamsutta Mills of New Bedford.
Politically he was a Whig and Republican.
In November, 1828, Mr. Almy married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Robert and Deborah Brayton,
of Nantucket. She was born June 19, 1803,
and died May 11, 1879.
About 1830 Mr. Almy bought a portion of
the old Almy farm, near Horse Neck, in Dart-
mouth, which he greatly improved and beauti-
fied, making of it a most delightful summer
residence. He became totally blind in 1858,
and in 1868 retired from business. He died
Dec. 25, 1881, in Boston, having lived to a ripe
old age and leaving an honored name and the
memory of an active and useful life.
The cluldren born to Mr. and Mrs. Almy
were: (1) Sarah died in infancy. (2) Robert
B., born Sept. 12, 1830, died Jan. 4, 1896.
(3) Sarah H., born Dec; 16, 1832, died Feb.
28, 1869. (4) Matilda H. died in infancy.
(5) Henry, born Aug. 22, 1836, was a business
associate of his father, and died April 6, 1879.
He married Jan. 17, 1862, Elizabeth Barker,
and their children, all now living (1910) were:
Mabel, born Sept. 5, 1864; Sarah Helen, Dec.
19, 1870; Henry, June 24, 1875. (6) Cath-
erine G. died young. (7) John P. and (8)
William F. were twins, born Jan. 17, 1841.
John P. never married, and died Aug. 7, 1905.
William F. is mentioned below. (9) Alice B.,
born April 14, 1843, died Jan. 5, 1871, married
Frederick Grinnell, of New Bedford, and had
a daughter, Alice A. (10) Thomas R. resides
at New Bedford.
(VIII) William F. Almy, son of William (3)
and Elizabeth, was born Jan. 17, 1841. He
married Alice Gray, of Boston. Soon after his
marriage he became associated in business with
Thomas Gray & Co., cotton merchants, and after
Mr. Gray's death he continued the business un-
der the name of Almy & Co. until he died,
June 14, 1898. He had two children, William
and Eleanor Brooks, who with the wife and
mother survive.
(IX) William Almy, son of WilUam F.,
was born April 9, 1874. He succeeded his
father, William F. Almy, in the cotton business,
and after a few years formed a new firm, Almy,
Rogerson & Bremer, afterward Almy, Bremer
& Co., and now William Almy & Co. He has
been successful in business, being one of the
largest cotton mercliants in Boston.
On April 8, 1899, Mr. Almy married Elsie
H. Pierce, of New Bedford, daughter of An-
drew G. Pierce. They have had five children,
all living (1910) : William, Jr., born Nov. 30,
1900; Caroline Pierce, Oct. 9, 1901; Robert
•Brayton, Dec. 1, 1902 ; Mary Louise, March
21, 1906; Richard, Feb. 5, 1909.
(IX) • Eleanor Brooks Almy, daughter of
William F. Almy, married April 22, 18^96, The-
odore G. Bremer, and they have three children :
Alice, born May 24, 1897; Eleanor, Oct. 10,
1899 ; and Theodore Glover, Jr., Dec. 8, 1903,
all living.
FREDERICK CHANDLER MANN, for so
many years connected with the Carver Cotton
Gin Company, and so well known through the
entire Southland where he had traveled in the
interest of that company, was born in Boston,
Mass., Jan. 24, 1839, and died in East Bridge-
water, Feb. 8, 1907. The surname Mann in
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673
England is found in "Domesday Book," A. D.
1086, and here in New England history it has
been kno^vn from the earliest period of the
Colonies.
(I) Richard Man, of Scituate, Mass., came
to New England previous to the year 1644,
where in January of that year he took the oath
of fidelity.' Dean, in his history of Scituate
^1831), says "Richard Man (planter) was a
youth in Elder Brewster's family, and came to
Plymouth in the 'Mayflower,' 1620. He was
one of the Connihassett partners in Scituate,
1646. His farm was at Man Hill (a well
known place to this day), south of the great
Musquaslicut pond, and north of John Hoar's
farm. There is no record of his marriage
here." Mr. Man was a farmer and one of the
original proprietors of Scituate. On the east
of liis lands was the sea. on the north Musquash-
cut pond, and still farther north, bordering on
the pond, were the "Famies" so called. In an
attempt to cross this pond on the ice in Feb-
ruary, 1655, Richard Man was drowned. The
records indicate that he was a man of consid-
erable prominence in the colony. After his
death his widow Rebecca married John Cowen, •
and lived in the house of her former husband
until 1670. Richard Man and his wife Rebecca
had children, born in Scituate : Nathaniel, born
Sept. 23, 1646, died July 20, 1688; Thomas,
born Aug. 15, 1650 ; Richard, born Feb. 5, 1652,
married Elizabeth Sutton; Josiah, born Dec.
10, 1654.
(II) Thomas Man, son of Richard and Re-
becca, was born Aug. 15, 1650, in Scituate,
Mass. The Christian name of his wife was Sarah.
The records indicate that Mr. Man was a large
landholder, and more than twenty transfers to
and from him are found in the record . of con-
veyances. In one or two deeds he is called a
wheelwright, but his chief occupation was farm-
ing. In 1703 he bought lands of his brother
Richard, and ten years later deeded them to his
own son Thomas. He was a coroner's juror in
1677, and in 1680 his name was propounded
as a freeman for the next year if the town ap-
proved. His children were : Josiah, born
March 11, 1679, died in 1708, unmarried;
Thomas, horn April 5, 1681 ; Sarah, born Nov.
15, 1684, married a Gibbs; Mary, born March
15, 1688; Elizabeth, born March 10, 1692; Jo-
seph, born Dec. 27, 1694; Benjamin, born Feb.
19, 1697, married Martha Curtis; and Ensign,
"born about 1699, married widow Tabitha Vinal,
of Scituate.
(Ill)* Thomas Man (2), son of Thomas, bom
April 5, 1681, in Scituate, married Dec. 8, 1714,
Deborah Joy. In some accounts he is men-
43
tioned as a cordwainer, but his principal occu-
pation was farming on lands deeded to him by
his father in 1713. He died Dec. 8, 1714. His
children were: Josiah, born Dec. 7, 1715,
married Jan. 2, 1741, Mary Chubbuck, who died
in 1800; Capt. Thomas, born Nov. 26, 1717,
married (first) Ruth Damon, and (second)
Deborah Briggs; David, born Nov. 9, 1719,
married Alice Healey; Deborah, born Feb. 20,
1721, married in 1749, Abner Curtis of Han-
over; Sarah, born Feb. 20, 1721, married Jesse
Curtis of Hanover; and Ebenezer, born Dec.
28, 1725.
• (IV) Ebenezer Man, son of Thomas (2),
born Dec. 28, 1725, in Scituate, Mass., mar-
ried (first) Aug. 22, 1751, Rebecca Magouq,
who was the mother of all his children. • He
married (second) Oct. 1, 1772, Ursula Ran-
dall. His life was spent chiefly in Pembroke,
Mass., where he is mentioned as a shipwright,
having early purchased lands at what was
known as the brick kilns, a famous shipbuild-
ing locality in the early history of the town.
He also had lands near the North river bridge
and later purchased an estate where Thomas
Man afterward lived. He died about 1805, in
Pembroke, Mass. His children were : David,
l)orn Oct. 19, 1752 (0. S.) ; Rebecca, born Jan.
12, 1755, married Joshua Turner; Ebenezer,
l)orn Aug. 6, 1757, married Sarah Buffington;
Betsey, born Oct. 14, 1759, married Thomas
Nash.
(V) David Mann, son of Ebenezer, born Oct.
19, 1752 (0. S.), in Pembroke, Mass., married
Dec. 24, 1778, Betsey Bates, of Duxbury, Mass.
In deeds Mr. Mann is called a shipwright. It
is said, also, that he was a farmer, and a dea-
con in the "First Church" in Pembroke, Mass.
He died there Nov. 22, 1838, leaving a will.
His wife died at Pembroke, in 1828, aged sixty-
eight years. Children, all born in Pembroke,
were: Huldah, born Aug. 7, 1780 (married
Jabez Josselyn) ; David, born Nov. 29, 1782;
Comfort, born July 11, 1785; Ebenezer, born
Oct. 12, 1788 (married Alma Josselyn) ; Isaiah,
born May 22, 1791; Daniel, born Nov. 8, 1793;
Thomas, born June 10, 1796; Betsey, born
April 18, 1799 (married John Turner of Pem-
broke) ; Josiah, born Oct. 16, 1801; and Me-
linda, born June 4, 1807.
(VI) David Mann, son of David, born Nov.
29, 1782, in Pembroke, Mass., married there
Jan. 24, 1805, Rebecca Oldham, daughter of
David and Rebecca (Chandler) Oldham, of
Pembroke, born Sept. 18, 1785, and died Jan.
7, 1855. Both are buried in Central cemetery.
Mr. Mann was a resident of Pembroke, Mass.,
by trade a ship joiner, a very skillful and in-
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dustrious workman.' He took large contracts
in Medford and elsewhere, and employed many
men in his day. He died in Pembroke, Oct.
11, 1858. His children were: John C, born
April 6, 1806, married Sylvia L. Hedge ; David
0., born Dec. 13, 1808, married Nancy Austin;
Jonathan 0., born Dee. 13, 1808, married Eliza
A. Sears; Almira, born April 1, 1811, married
George Taber; Adeline, born Feb. 13, 1813,
married George Oldham; Elizabeth, born Dec.
26, 1815, married Robert Ramsdell ; Mary T.,
born July 15, 1820, married Seth Whitman,
Jr. ;- and Lucy P., born Sept. 3, 1822, married
Horace J. Foster.
(VII) John Chandler Mann, son of David
and Rebecca, was born in Pembroke, April 6,
1806, and died April 23, 1867. He attended the
common schools, and then learned the mold-
er's trade in the iron foundries, aft#r wliich
he went to Boston and worked at Alger's foun-
dry as master workman, later becoming super-
intendent. He was also employed at different
times in Canton, and in Bridgewater, Mass.
On March 1, 1827, he married Silvia Lovell
Hedge, born in Nantucket, Nov. 25, 1806,
daughter of John and Clarissa (Crowell)
Hedge, of Pembroke. She died in Pembroke,
June 23, 1875, and was buried beside her hus-
band in Central cemetery. Their children, born
in Pembroke and Boston, were: (1) Maria,
born Feb. 26, 1828, married Sept. 27, 1847,
James R. Josselyn (who died in 1882), and
had three children, Ella F. (married E. M.
Jones), Oilman and James E. (2) Priscilla
Josselyn, born April 9, 1830, married April 29,
1849, Dr. Francis Collamore, of Pembroke, and
had two children, Fiorina M. (born June 28,
1862) and Francis, Jr. (born Oct. 23, 1855,
and residing in East Bridgewater). (3)
Charles E., born April, 1833, died in August,
1833. (4) Clara Hedge, born April 6, 1834,
married Sept. 12, 1858, Josiah Dean Bonney,
and had a son, Charles Dean (born July, 1867,
married to Etta Stetson). (5) John Hedge,
born September, 1836, died August, 1842. (6)
Frederick Chandler is mentioned below. (7)
Louise Frances,;. born Aug. 1, 1841, married
Jan. 29, 1865,fHenry B. White, and they made
their home in Boston, where both died, and they
are buried at Forest Hills cemetery tliere. Tliey
had two sons, Harry Howard and Frederick
Leonard. (8) Florena Ella, born July 8, 1843,
died Nov. 26, 1860. (9) Edwin Forrest, born in
September, 1845, died Nov. 19, 1860. (10)
Julia Augusta, born Aug. 7, 1848, married Wil-
liam P. Bates, of Boston, and their son, William
Franklin, born in June, 1876, resides at Ever-
ett, Massachusetts.
(VIII) Frederick Chandler Mann, son of
John Chandler, was born in Boston, Jan. 24,.
1839, but was still quite young when his father
took his family back to the old homestead in
Pembroke. There, in the public schools he ac-
quired his preliminary education, and his stud-
ies were completed in Hanover Academy. At
the age of eighteen he came to East Bridgewater,
where he learned the carpenter's trade, serving
his apprenticeship with William Hudson. He
then went to Providence, R. I., where he worked
at his trade for a Mr. Gale for about three
years. At the end of that time he returned to
East Bridgewater, and entered the employ of the-
Carver Cotton Gin Company in the wood work-
ing department, setting up the wooden parts of
the cotton gin. Later he went into the machin-
ery department, and while there perfected a
number of inventions, which were made use
of in cotton seed oil machinery. On several of
these he was granted Letters Patent, under
which he licensed the above named company
to manufacture. He was also for many years
directly interested in the manufacture of a
cotton seed huller, another patented invention
of his.
When Mr. Mann started on the road as a
traveling salesman, it was to sell machinery
to box board mills through New York, Vermont,
New Hampshire, Maine and Canada. He-
proved his worth, and the Carver Company sent
him South through North Carolina, South Car-
olina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Te.xas. His trips consumed
about nine months of each year. He made his
first trip in 1869, and his last in 1903. After
retirement from the road he remained in the
employ of the same company until some months
before his death. He was a trustee of the East
Bridgewater Savings Bank.
Fraternally Mr. Mann was a Mason, taking
the first three degrees in Fellowship Lodge, A.
F. & A. M., at Bridgewater, and later became-
a member of Satucket Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at
East Bridgewater, and was a life member of'
the Satucket Royal Arch Chapter at Brockton.
In his younger days he belonged to the Good'
Templars, and was always a believer in tem-
perance. In politics he was a Republican. He
was a member of the First Parish (Unitarian)
of East Bridgewater. His remains rest in Cen-
tral cemetery. East Bridgewater.
On Nov. 23, 1864, Mr. Mann married Pa-
melia Leonard Hill, daughter of Leonard and'
Pamela (Cushing) Hill, of East Bridgewater.
To bless this union came children as follows:
(1) Charles Frederick, born April 12, 1869, in
East Bridgewater, is unmarried, and resides
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with his mother at the old home. He graduated
from the East Bridgewater high school in 1885,
and from the Bryant & Stratton Commercial
School in Boston in June, 1886. The following
August he became time keeper, paymaster and
assistant bookkeeper in the Carver Cotton Gin
Company, where he remained until April 30,
1893, when he resigned. On May 1, 1893, he
became treasurer of the East Bridgewater Sav-
ings Bank, and still holds that position. He
has been active in public affairs, and served
as town treasurer from 1902 until 1911, when
he resigned. In 1902 and 1903 he was town
clerk. For several years he was treasurer of the
Board of Trade of East Bridgewater, and of
the Savings Bank Treasurers Club of Massa-
chusetts, and is a member of the Commercial
Club of Brockton. Fraternally he is a Mason,
belonging to Satucket Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
of East Bridgewater, in which he is past mas-
ter; Harmony Chapter, R. A. M., of Bridge-
water, in which he is past high priest ; Brocktcfti
Council, R. & S. M., of Brockton; Old Colony
Commandery, No. 15, K. T., of Abington, in
which he is generalissimo; and in 1900 and
1901 was District Deputy Grand Master of the
24th Masonic District. He is a member of the
First Parish (Unitarian) of East Bridgewater,
and for several years has been a member of
the parish committee. (2) Mary Isabel, born
March 12, 1876, attended the public schools of
East Bridgewater, and the Bryant & Stratton
Commercial School in Boston, after which she
was bookkeeper in the East Bridgewater Sav-
ings Bank for eight years, resigning then on
account of ill health; she married Nov. 17,
1910, Leon E. Keith, of Campello, Mass., where
they reside. (3) Grace Leonard, born April
19, 1882, attended the public schools, and was
graduated from the State Normal School at
Bridgewater, in 1903. She taught school in
Raynham Center for a time ; she married Dec.
27, 1910, Andrew Richmond Parker, of East
Bridgewater, where they reside.
In 1900 Mrs. Mann purchased the old Hobart
house on Central street, and has since made it
her home. This house was built in 1799, by
Gen. Sylvanus Lazell, and is a fine specimen of
the New England architecture of that period.
Hill. The Hill family, to which Mrs. Mann
belongs, is descended from (I) John Hill, immi-
grant, who was at Dorchester, Mass., in 1633.
His wife Frances was admitted to the church
before 1639. He was a member of the Boston
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He
died May 31, 1664. His will was proved June
30, 1664. He bequeathed to his wife Frances,
sons John and Samuel, and daughter Mary.
His widow married (second) Jonas Austin, and
removed to Taunton, being dismissed from the
Dorchester Church, June 28, 1674; he died at
Dorchester, Nov. 18, 1676. To John and Fran-
ces Hill were born children: John settled at
the "Farms," on Charles river, was twice mar-
ried and died before March 20, 1718; Frances;
Jonathan, baptized Aug. 12, 1640; Mary mar-
ried April 12, 1656, Thomas Breck, of Sher-
born ; Samuel, baptized in 1638, died young;
Samuel (2), in 1640; Hannah, born in 1641,
removed to Taunton; Mercy, born Jan. 8, 1642-
43; Ebenezer sold land in Dorchester, 1675;
Martha, baptized Aug. 20, 1648; Mehetabel,
baptized Feb. 18, 1650-51 ; Ruth married Roger
Willis ; and Rebecca was admitted to the church
Sept. 11, 1664.
(II) Jonathan Hill, son of John, baptized
Aug. 12, 1640, married Mary , and early
removed to Bridgewater, Mass. Their children
were: Nathaniel married in 1710, Hannah,
daughter of Nathaniel Conant; Ebenezer; Jon-
athan perhaps went to Middleboro; Mary mar-
ried in 1702, Elnathan Bassett; and Bethiah
was a member of the church in 1724.
(III) Ebenezer Hill, son of Jonathan, mar-
ried in 1714, Susanna, daughter of Jacob Leon-
ard. They died, he, in 1760, and she, in 1764.
Their children were: Ebenezer, born in 1715;
Jacob, born in 1717; Israel, born in 1719; and
Eleazer, born in 1730.
(IV) Jacob Hill, son of Ebenezer, married
in 1754, Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Bonney,
of Pembroke. Their children were : Hezekiah,
born in 1754; Jacob, born in 1756; Susanna,
born in 1759; Abigail, born in 1761; Eleazer,
born in 1764. Of these Hezekiah and Eleazer
went to Maine. The parents died, he, in 1804,
aged eighty-seven, and she, in 1781, aged fifty-
one.
(V) Jacob Hill (2), son of Jacob, born in
1756, married in 1780, Anne, daughter of
Thomas Tribou, a Frenchman who settled in
Bridgewater, as early as 1745, and his wife
Margery Pratt. Their children were: Mel-
zar, horn in 1783; Jacob, born in 1784; Nanny,
born in 1786, married in 1809 Ephraim Carey,
and went to Minot; Leonard, born in 1788, is
mentioned below. Of these, Melzar married
Mary Howland and went to Minot, now Au-
Imrn, Maine ; Jacob was graduated from Brown
University in 1807, settled as a lawyer at Minot
and married Marcia Lobdell. The parents died,
he, in 1827, aged seventy, and she, in 1823,
aged sixty-five.
(VI) Leonard Hill, son of Jacob (2), born
in East Bridgewater, March 28, 1788, married
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(first) in 1817, Polly, daughter of Jonah Willis,
of Bridgewater. To this union was born a son,
Charles Henry, who died in Boston at the age
of twenty-three years. Mr. Hill married (sec-
ond) Pamela Cushing, daughter of Daniel and
Zerviah (Chamberlain) Cushing, of East
Bridgewater. All are buried in the Central
cemetery at East Bridgewater. The children
born of the second marriage were : Pamelia
Leonard, now Mrs. Mann; and Mary Caroline,
born Aug. 20, 1843, who married America
Emerson Stetson, of Whitman, and they had
one son, Frank Cushing Stetson, who married
Lizzie Gertrude Soule, of Whitman; they have
been the parents of four children, Dorothy Eliz-
abeth (who died in infancy), Dana Emerson,
Robert Jackson and Theodore.
DARLING. (I) John and Dennis Darling
appeared at Braintree, Mass., appro.ximately two
hundred and fifty years ago. To the latter is
traced the lineage of Joseph Monroe Darling, so
long well knowii in Fall River. Jojm Darling
was at Braintree, Mass., as early as 1660. He
married in 1664 Elizabeth Dowman (?), and
Dennis married in 1662 Hannah Francis, both
families having children.
(II) Capt. John Darling, son of Dennis, bom
Sept. 2, 1664, in Braintree, married there (first)
Elizabeth Tliompson. She died in 1687, and he
married (second) in 1690 Anne, and (third)
Elizabeth Morse. Captain Darling settled in
Bellingham, Mass. He is reputed to have been
a great business man, and owner of considerable
land. He is said to have headed the petition for
the setting off of the town of Bellingham, whicli
was incorporated in 1719. He died in 1753-54,
in Bellingham, aged eighty-nine years. His
children born to the third marriage were:
Elizabeth, Samuel, Ruth, Hannah, Margaret,
Ebenezer, Mary, Martha, Abigail and Deborah.
(III) Capt. Samuel Darling, son of Capt.
John, born March 18, 1693-94, died Feb. 17,
1774. He married (first) Dec. 15, 1716, Mar}'
Thompson, of Mendon, Mass., and their chil-
dren were: Samuel, Michael, Elizabeth, Ruth,
Abigail, John, Rachel, Penelope and Joshua.
(IV) John Darling, son of Capt. Samuel and
Mary (Thompson) Darling, had children:
John, Nathaniel, Seth, Penelope, Sarah and
Hannah. The will of John Darling was pro-
bated April 1, 1800, at Dedham, Mass.. giving
to his son Seth his estate as provided therein.
(V) Seth Darling, son of John, was bom
April 28, 1777. in Bellingham, ilass. (prob-
ably), and died Feb. 12, 1861. He married
(first) Susannah Cook, bom Feb. 10, 1776, who
died Oct. 12, 1812. He married for his second
wife Susannali Clark, born in 1784, in Gloces-
ter, R. I. There were four children by the
first marriage: Anna, born May 17, 1800;
Horatio N., born Aug. 16, 1802 (died in
1871) ; Almira, born July 12, 1804 (died July,
1828) ; and Silas J., born May 11, 1807. By
the second marriage there were: Isaac C, bom
July 31, 1814; Susannah Mercy, born March
19, 1818; Barton M., born July 18, 1821; and
William J., born xVpril 19, 1823 — all born in
Glocester, Rhode Island.
(VI) Horatio N. Darling, son of Seth and
Susannah (Cook) Darling, born in Glocester,
R. I., Aug. 16, 1802, died in 1871. He married
Wait Taylor, daughter of John Taylor (she
was a cousin of President Zachary Taylor),
and their children, all bom in West Glocester,
R. I., were : Amasa Ross, bom Nov. 15, 1825,
died in April, 1845; Horatio N., Jr., born Nov.
14, 1828, married Emetine M. Rich; William
S., bom June 27, 1831, died in 1834; John
Allen, born Feb. 12, 1833, married Marietta
J. Rich ; Joseph M., bom July 18, 1835, is men-
tioned below; Henry C, born Aug. 5, 1837,
married Ruth S. Slade, of Fall River, and died
March 31, 1907; Benjamin L., born in 1841,
married Rhoda Earns, of Fall River.
(VII) Joseph Monroe Darling, son of
Horatio N. and Wait (Taylor) Darling, was
born July 18, 1835, in West Glocester, R. I.
His parents removing to Fall River when he
was a child of five years, he there passed his
boyhood and acquired his education in the pub-
lic schools. His school days over, he began
employment in Eddy's Woolen Mill there, in
which he continued for three years. He then
learned and followed for a time the carpenter's
trade, which in time led to the business of
contracting and building, wdiich he followed
quite e.xtensively and successfully for some fif-
teen years, during which period he constructed
in and about Fall River many large business
buildings and dwelling-houses and a number of
public buildings, including several schoolhouses.
In the meantime he gradually drifted into the
special branch of business akin to it — that of
an architect — which superseded the other and
in which he has now been engaged for approxi-
mately forty years. And it is needless to say
that during that long period he has designed
not a few of the best class of houses in and
about Fall River and established an extensive
business. An illustration of his taste and pro-
ficiency in his profession is seen in the magni-
ficent edifice of the Boys' Club, including the
older building and the new part erected in
1906, a gift to the citv of Fall River from
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In time Mr. Darling took into business with
him his sons, who, having grown up as it were
in this line of work, became proficient, and all
in a manner have special features to which they
have given their attention. The sons Joseph
ajid Frederick Darling give special attention to
contracting, while George Darling is a full-
fledged architect and with his father deals with
that feature of the work. Mr. Darling is also
in business in Newport, having a partnership
with Aldora Slade on work in Rhode Island.
They built the toi-jiedo factoiy for the govern-
ment.
The senior Mr. Darling was for a number of
years a member of the common council of Fall
River, and during that time served on the
committee that had charge of the introduction
of the water supply for the city. Socially he
is an Odd Fellow and a Mason, in the latter
connection belonging to Narragansett Lodge,
Fall River Royal Arch Chapter and Godfrey de
Bouillon Commandery.
Mr. Darling has taken a good citizen's part
in the upbuilding of Fall River in more than
one respect. He did his duty while in the pub-
lic service, and in the particular business to
which his active years have been devoted has
found opportunity to promote the material
growth of the city and influence general opinion
in the right direction by showing in his work
the wisdom of combining substantial construc-
tion with pleasing effects, sacrificing neither
one to the other.
On Sept. 30, 1857, Mr. Darling married
Hettie A., daughter of George and Mehetabel
Reynolds, of Fall River, but formerly of Rhode
Island. Mrs. Darling died Jan. 1, 1901. Seven
children blessed this union: (1) Joseph M.
married Annie S. Eddy, of Fall River, and they
had two children, Joseph M. 2d, who married
Louise Pollock, and Bessie, now deceased, who
married Joseph Palmer and had four children,
Ethel, Eddie, Hettie and Janice. (2) George
married Frances L. Davis and had three chil-
dren, Edward W., Maud F. (wife of Raymond
W. Parlin) and George. (3) Frederick E. mar-
ried Mary Simmons and has children, Marion
and Wylder. (4) Edith M., wife of Clinton
G. Albert, city collector, has children, Dorothy
and Barton. (5) Annie W. is the wife of Wil-
liam Bennett. (6) Edward B., in Florida, has
heen twice married ; his first wife was Nellie
Brightman. (7) Minnie H.
BARDEN. The surnames Barden, Bardeen,
Burden, and Bourden were originally Borden,
in the spelling of which there are over thirty
variations. The Bardens of Attleboro and
North Attleboro are descendants of Richard
Borden, who was one of the original settlers in
Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
(I) Richard Borden, of the County of Kent,
England, born in 1601, came to New England
in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann," in 1635,
accompanied by his wife Joan and two children.
In 1638 he went from Boston to Portsmouth,
R. L, as one of the founders of that town, was
admitted a freeman there in 1641, and subse-
quently held various public offices, including
that of deputy to the General Court. He wor-
shiped with the Society of Friends, and in all
his dealings with his fellow men he exemplified
to a high degree the principles of that faith. He
died in Portsmouth in 1671, and his wife died
there July 16, 1688. Their children were:
Thomas, born in England ; Francis, also born
there; Mathew, born in Portsmouth in May,
1638, the first native white child of the island
of Rhode Island ; John, referred to below ;
Joseph, liorn in 1643; Sarah, born in 1644;
Samuel, born in 1645; Benjamin, born in
1649 ; Amie, born in 1654.
(II) John Borden, son of Richard, was bom
in Portsmouth, in September, 1640, and died
there June 4, 1716. He married Dec. 25, 1670,
Mary Earl, born in Portsmouth in 1655, died
there in 1734. Children: Richard, born Oct.
24, 1671, died July 12, 1732; John, bom in
1675, married Sarah Earl, of Portsmouth;
Annie, born May 30, 1678, married Benjamin
Chase, of Tiverton, R. I. ; Joseph, bom Dec.
3, 1680, married Sarah Brownell, of Ports-
mouth ; Thomas is referred to below ; Hope,
born March 3, 1684, married William Olney,
Jr., of Tiverton; William, bora Aug. 15, 1689,
married Alice Hall, of Jamestown, R. I.; Ben-
jamin settled in Virginia; Mary.
(III) Thomas Borden, son of John, was bom
in Portsmoutli, R. I., Dec. 13, 1682, and was
residing there in and subsequent to 1721. He
married April 18, 1717, Catherine Hull, born
Feb. 23, 1689, daughter of John and Alice
(Teddeman) Hull, of Jamestown. He married
(second) Oct. 4, 1727, Mary Briggs, of Ports-
mouth, a descendant of John Briggs, one of
the founders of that tovm. His three sons,
Thomas, Isaac and Samuel Borden (or Barden),
settled in Attleboro. Of these sons Isaac, who
was residing in Attleboro in 1759, married Ex-
perience Miller and reared a family; and Sam-
uel, who was living in Attleboro in 1766, mar-
ried a Miss Fuller and also reared a family.
(IV) Thomas Barden (2), son of Thomas,
was born in Portsmouth, R. I. He moved to
Attleboro, Mass., as early as 1756. Prior to
that he was concerned with his brothers, Isaac
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and Samuel Borden, in real estate transactions
in Tiverton and Portsmouth. In the recorded
deed of this period he is designated as a weaver,
and he followed that occupation in connection
with farming. He married Susanna, daughter
of Jonathan Riggs, and the latters homestead
was in 1786 conveyed to Thomas Harden by Asa
Hopkins for the sum of eighteen pounds, being-
referred to in the deed as "the real estate of our
honored father, Jonathan Riggs, late of Attle-
boro." It was located on North Main street,
and they occupied it as homestead until May
14, 1793, when with their other property and
real estate, amounting in all to about thirty-five
acres, it was conveyed to Ebenezer Roltinson, of
Attleboro, for the sum of one hundred pounds.
In later years the Barden homestead on Main
street came into the possession of C'harles Car-
penter. Thomas Barden was a Revolutionary
soldier, and is credited with the following ser-
vice : On alarm from Rhode Island, he enlisted
from Attleboro, Sept. 1, 1779, as private in
Capt. Joseph Franklin's company. Col. Nathan
Tylor's regiment, served four montlis and was
discharged Dec. 31, 1779. He reenlisted July
28, 1780, in Capt. Caleb Richardson's company.
Col. Abiel Mitchell's regiment, which was
raised to reinforce the Continental army, and
was discharged Oct. 31, 1780. Children of
Thomas and Susanna (Riggs) Barden: Su-
sanna, born Sept. 3, 1763; Thomas, referred to
below; George, March 15, 1767 (died Sept. 24,
1772); Otis, Dec. 6, 1769; Eleanor, May 26,
1772; James, March 21, 1774; Silvanus,"Nov.
22, 1779 ; Mollv, July 22, 1782; Eunice, March
18, 1784.
(V) Thomas Barden (3), son of Thomas (2),
born in Attleboro, Mass., Feb. 24, 1765, mar-
ried Nancy Alexander.
(VI) Thomas Barden (4), only child of
Thomas (3), was born in Attleboro, Mass., May
3, 1788. In early boyhood he was placed by his
mother in the care of Luther Fisher, of ^Y rent-
ham, with whom he lived during the remainder
of his minority, and attended the district school.
When a young man he was employed at heading
nails by J. T. Wolcott and others and he later
worked for Joseph Grant, in Cumberland, R.
I., remaining there for several years. Return-
ing to Wrentham he purchased a farm located
on Blake's Hill, which from a rough and unim-
proved condition he brought to a high state of
fertility, and by his energy and perseverance
made it one of the most productive pieces of
agricultural property in that section of the
Stat«. He also erected new buildings, which
were thenceforth kept in good repair, and dur-
ing the remainder of his life the general appear-
ance of his homestead denoted the thrift, pros-
perity and neatness of its owner. In connection
with farming lie engaged quite extensively in
the wood and lumber business, purchasing sev-
eral tracts of woodland, the products of which
he sold in the villages of Attleboro and Paw-
tucket, also Central Falls, and he also carried
on a profitable business in the manufacture of
hoops for the West Indian trade. From the very
moment in which he started to solve the prob-
lem of life he never neglected an opportunity
which promised advancement, and as a result
his prosperity continued unabated for the re-
mainder of his life, wiiich terminated Oct. 13,
1845. In politics he was a stanch Democrat,
supporting the principle of equal rights, and
strongly opposing monopolies.
Thomas Barden married, Sept. 13, 1812, Ra-
chael Smith, born in Cumberland, R. I., March
1, 1789, died in North Attleboro, Jan. 29,
1880, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Ful-
ler) Smith, the latter a daughter of Jeremiah
Fuller. Thomas and Rachael Barden were in
every respect exemplary people. They not only
taught their children habits of honesty, frugality
and thrift, but through their own example in-
culcated in them the highest principles of
Christian morality, and they made their home
a sacred repository of all that is noble, righteous
and elevating. The family attended the Bap-
tist Church. It was said of Rachael that she
was her husband's guardian angel, and it may
be truthfully added that she was similarly re-
garded by the entire family. The best of lielp-
mates, the noblest and most sacrificing of
mothers, she did for them all she could and did
it well. She survived her husband many years,
spending her last days with her daughter Ann
and her son Halsey, and died a nonogenarian.
She reared a familv of seven children, namely:
(1) John SmithBarden. born Nov. 19, 1813,
died Feb. 8, 1905. He was an ingenious and
skilled mechanic, inventing and manufacturing
many useful devices, particularly pumps, meters
and waterwheels. He married Oct. 2, 1840,
Rosetta Ives, who was born May 15, 1820, and
died Oct. 5, 1893. Children: Jesse, born in
1847, died Jan. 4, 1848 ; Lorinda, born in
1842, died June 20, 1881.
(2) Ann Elizabeth Barden, bom Sept. 3,
1816, died July 16, 1876. She taught school
in Attleboro and Wrentham, and was married
Sept. 3, 1838, to Joseph Blake. Children:
Edmund M., born Sept. 9, 1839, died Feb. 10,
1910, married Ellen Cheever, and had one
daughter, Ethelyn ; Halsev T. was bom Nov. 26,
1845; Bradford S., born Aug. 26, 1848, died
Oct. 24, 1849 ; George Henry, bora Aug. 9, 1851,
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679
married Elmira Blackington and had one son,
Elmer.
(3) Thomas Alexander Barden, born May 30,
1819, died Feb. 7, 1905. He was a merchant
and manufacturer and later a farmer, was jus-
tice of the peace, and served the town of North
Attleboro as selectman. On Oct. 12, 1813, he
married Susan Emily White, who was bom
Aug. 23, 1819, and died Feb. 12, 1890. Chil-
dren: Emily Frances, born June 1, 1845, died
Dec. 27, 1845 ; Francis Irving, born Dec. 4, 184(3,
jnarried Sept. 25, 1867, Harriett B. Warren, and
had one daughter, Mabel Warren, bom June
17, 1868, who married June 11, 1890, William
F. Swift, and died Jan. 20, 1910; Ella Irene,
bom Oct. 6, 1851, married Dec. 25, 1878,
Oeorge Eugene Fisher, and has had children,
Charles Ellis (bom Jan. 24, 1880), Eugene
(bom 1882, died in infancy), Elliott B. (born
Aug. 1, 1894, died 1903) ; Walter Elliott, bom
Dec. 10, 1853, married June 6, 1877, Lucy S.
Bugbee, who was born Sept. 2, 1851, and died
June 11, 1901. the mother of six children,
Harry E. (born June 26, 1878), Elvena B.
(born Nov. 29. 1879, married April 4, 1906,
Chester F. Melendy), Louise Annie (bom April
•3, 1882), Helen S. (bom June 16, 1887),
Thomas Russell (born Jan. 22, 1890), and
Estelle (bom July 18, 1894); Evelyn Rhoda,
bom Oct. 20, 1858, died March 3, 1859; Elvena
Rachael, twin of Evelyn Rhoda, died April 10,
1867; Emily Louise was bom July 3, 1861.
(4) Laurinda White Barden, born June 6,
1821, died Oct. 6, 1838.
(5) Joseph Grant Barden is referred to below.
(6) Stephen Halsey Barden, born Aug. 30,
1826, died in Providence, R. I., June 19, 1881.
He was with his brother Joseph in the grocery
business in North Attleboro, and later with
Frederick E. Keep, as Barden & Keep, in the
wholesale flour and butter business in Provi-
xience, R. I. He married April 27, 1856, Sarah
Ann Crossley. Children : Charles Albert, bom
Feb. 26, 1858, married Dec. 19, 1887, Clara
■Cornelia Wilbur; Frederick William, bom Jan.
5, 1860, married (first) in November, 1885,
Emily Carter, who died July 3, 1900, and mar-
Tied (second) Sept. 6, 1906, Mrs. Marion Hale
Hilzer; Wallace Lincoln, born Sept. 23, 1862,
married Sept. 23, 1885, Jennie E. R. Cranston,
-who died Sept. 5, 1901, the mother of one
•daughter, Madeline (bom Sept. 7, 1887), and
be married (second) March 31, 1910, Gertmde
May Speakman; Sarah Elizabeth, born Dec. 5,
1864, died Sept. 5, 1866 ; Edward Everett, bom
Sept. 19, 1867. married Sept. 24, 1891, Mary E.
Wood, of South Pasadena, Cal., and has chil-
dren, Harold (bom Sept. 5, 1892) and Stephen
Halsey (bom Dec. 27, 1900) ; Estelle Jane, born
Dec. 6, 1874, married in August, 1902, Floyd
Rowe Watson, and has one child, Norman Allen,
bom May 11, 1909.
(7) Clarissa A. Barden, born Sept. 13, 1829,
died Sept. 28, 1875. She taught school for
many years; married Oct. 12, 1856, George E.
Bicknell, who was born March 10, 1829, died
March 5, 1900. Children : George Atherton,
born June 25, 1858, married Olive Simonson;
Annie Louise, born July 31, 1864, married
Nov. 13, 1888, Henry P. Palin, and has had
children, Chester A. (born July 27, 1889), Ho-
mer Alden (born July 13, 1892), and Lester
(born July 29, 1890, died Nov. 10, 1890).
(VII) Joseph Grant Barden, son of Thomas
(4) and Rachael (Smith), was bom in Wrent-
ham Sept. 2, 1824, the fifth in a family of seven
children. He was educated in his home district,
called Blake's Hill. In the years of his child-
hood and early manhood, Wrentham being
largely engaged in the manufacture of straw
bonnets, nearly every well-to-do farmer re-
served a plat of land whereon he raised straw,
cradled, cured and bunched in June, afterward
cut out, whitened, split and made ready for
braiding. This was much in demand by those
who manufactured bonnets. During the long
winter evenings the children, both boys and
girls, were seated around the tallow candle,
each having their number of yards to braid.
Those energetic enough to complete their task
early could have for their own use all they
earned afterward. Here was a chance for our
protege to own what, above all things, he de-
sired— a violin. With the aid of a master he
soon became proficient, and his presence, with
V)ow, was one thing needful at parties and sing-
ing schools. Later he sold his first purchase
and secured one of the finest violins then made ;
this was a lifelong companion. It was menial
service in those days, even for a promising
youth, to walk beside a yoke of oxen, with cords
of wood, to be delivered in Providence some
fourteen miles away, and bring back whatever
was ordered by grocers or contractors of build-
ings in the villages he passed. Much of the
route on his way was at that time thinly peo-
pled, so he was acquainted with the heads of
each household, and in the decline of his life
enjoyed greatly the narration of those jour-
neys, which he punctuated with many funny in-
citlents. Soon after his twenty-first birthday,
his father's death placed him as the head man-
ager of the homestead farm. In 1847, two years
later, his younger brother Halsey and he be-
came partners in this and other lines of busi-
ness. They started a small grocery trade, also
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manufactured hoop poles, which found a ready
sale in Providence. They quarried from a ledge
on the farm large quantities of stone, not de-
livered, however, by the oxen his father had
owned, but by two pairs of fine spirited horses
of his own purchase. The success which fol-
lowed proved his ability in planning work and
acting as leader in responsible places. In 1850
they built the house on the corner of Park and
Whiting streets, the ground floor being used as
a grocery and dry goods store by their older
brother, Thomas A. In 1853 Thomas A. sold
the business to them. Two years later, 1855,
Joseph Grant and Stephen Halsey Barden
erected a fine structure at the junction of Park
and Washington streets, locating their business,
"Flour, Grain and Groceries," on the east side
of the building, and renting to Thomas A. the
west side for dry goods. The second story was
fitted and furnished for a hall. It was dedi-
cated on Thanksgiving Eve, 1855, and is re-
membered as the first building (aside from the
shops) in North Attleboro where gas had been
installed. It was known as "Barden's Store."
Residents in town and the towns adjoining
made this the "mecca of trade'" ; their rule was
"large sales with small profits." In 1857 Mr.
Barden changed his residence to North Attle-
boro, but managed the homestead farm until
1861. The year 1864 found the brothers in
partnership with Charles B. Thompson, who
had been in their employ as clerk. Joseph G.
(always the buyer) now made several trips
West, purchasing cargoes of com, and flour from
mills, visiting the dairj' farms of Vermont and
New Hampshire, purchasing at first cost.
Shortly afterward he also established a grain
business in Providence with Otis Cook, and con-
ducted it successfully till 1868, when it was
dissolved. In 1869 the brothers (partners for
twenty-two years) sold the North Attleboro
store and business to Charles B. Thompson. In-
dustrious and persevering by nature, Joseph G.
decided in 1878 to give the coal trade a trial.
This he followed for seven years with good re-
sults. Later he was the senior member of a
jewelry firm known as Barden, Blake & Com-
pany of Plainville, and in 1897 he retired from
active service and the jewelrj' plant passed into
the hands of one of liis sons. His judgment
regarding the value of property was considered
excellent and his conscientious scruples (never
swerving from right for either party) made him
even in early manJiood much in demand as a
referee in the appraisal of estates. He filled
various offices of trust in town, those of select-
man, school committeeman, surveyor of streets,
assessor, overseer of the poor, member of the
building conunittee for the high school, alms-
house, etc. He with Henry F. Barrows obtained
from the Legislature the charter for the North
Attleboro waterworks; this charter was later
transferred to the town. He was an active mem-
ber of the Attleboro Agricultural Association
during the years of its existence, filling many
of its offices without stint of time, labor or
purse ; was vice president of same for two years.
The Attleboro Savings Bank he served for fifteen
years as member of tlie investigating committee
and more than twenty years as trustee. Of the
Plainville Savings and Loan Association he was
trustee and director for twentv-three years; in
the records of the association lor 190.3 his long
connection with the association is pointed to
with great pride by the board of directors and
they regretted to be obliged to accept his resig-
nation, the secretary being requested to pre-
pare a set of resolutions on the long and able
service of Mr. Barden, the retiring trustee. He
was from early life greatly interested in all
things pertaining to the welfare of the town
and its suburbs. Though his zeal even at this
date was in no way abated, his declining health
caused him to relinquish one by one his accus-
tomed public places, the last one as director of
the North Attle))oro Gaslight Compan^y, to
which office he was chosen in 1862, remaining
on the board until his death, a period of forty-
six years. He was often a member of some
committee to ' attend to its most important
affairs ; also an auditor of the company for many
years, which made him familiar with all the
details of the business. The following is quoted
from the writings of one among them: "Mr.
Barden was a very valuable member of the
board, and was held in the highest esteem by
other members whose financial interests were
larger than his own. He had the entire con-
fidence of those associated witli him." A man
of temperance and integrity, of few words,
when he expressed liis opinion they carried
weight. Gifted like his mother with a remark-
able memory, he was a great reader and kept
in touch with all events of the day. He never
aspired to oflice, yet during Cleveland's admin-
istration was urged by the Democratic party
to allow his name to be \ised and was nominated
as representative. Though the Republican party
won, this is worthy of note — he ran far beyond
his ticket. He had a wide acquaintance among
business men, and held the respect of those with
whom he had associated during his long life
of eighty-four years.
Joseph Grant Barden married Dec. 9, 1857,
Arm Frances, born in Attleboro, daughter of
Stephen and Chloe ilartin (Pierce) Clark, the
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former a blacksmith of Wrentham. Children:
(1) Cora Florence, born Aug. 31, 1859, has
been a teacher in the public schools of North
Attleboro for nearly thirty years. (2) Arthur
Stephen, born Oct. 9, 1861, died July 18,
1864. (3) Edgar Joseph, born March 26, 1865,
is an engraver. (1) Winthrop Francis is men-
taoned below. (5) Adelbert Mason, born June
18, 1872, is connected with the J. C. Hall Com-
pany, of Providence, R. I. For a number of
years he was foreman of their lithographing
department, and is now the traveling salesman.
He is a member of Aurora Lodge, I. 0. 0. F.,
of North Attleboro, and the Masonic bodies.
He married Dec. 5, 1899, Mattie Louise Dean,
of North Attleboro. (6) Henry Clark, bom
May 12, 1875, is an electrical engineer. He
graduated from Tufts College in 1897, was for
seven years chief electrician at the Massachu-
setts statehouse, and he is now doing business
in Attleboro as an electrical contractor and
dealer in electrical goods.
(VIII) WixTHROP Francis Baeden, third
son and fourth child of Joseph Grant and Ann
Frances (Clark) Barden, was born in North
Attleboro, Mass., Dec. 3, 1868. His education
was acquired at the public and high schools,
supplemented by a course in the Bryant &
Stratton commercial college in Providence, R.
I., from which he was graduated in 1888. He
then became bookkeeper for Wade, Davis &
Company, of Wrentham (now Plainville),
Mass., remaining with them till 1893, when he
was made manager of the jewelry manufac-
turing concern of Barden, Blake & Company.
In 1897 he formed a partnership with Martin
I. Chapman, the firm name being Chapman &
Barden, manufacturers of jewelry. In 1904
they removed their business to more commo-
dious quarters at No. 37 County street, Attle-
boro. Two years later Mr. Chapman disposed
of his interest to Harry E. Hull, the new firm
being Barden & Hull, manufacturers of solid
gold jewelry. Mr. Barden was for a number of
years a director of the Plainville Savings and
Loan Association. He was the leading spirit
in the organization, under the Massachusetts
laws, of the Bronson Building Company, an
a.ssociation which bought the late Dr. John R.
Bronson homestead property and built a mod-
em block called the Bronson building, which
in addition to stores and offices contains the
very attractive and convenient Masonic halls
and parlors. Later the Bronson apartments
and court building were erected, these being
among the substantial structures of Attleboro.
Dr. Charles S. Holden is president of this com-
pany, Maj. E. S. Horton was vice president,
and Mr. Barden is director and general manager
of the properties. Mr. Barden has also erected
a residence on Soiith Main street, where he now
resides. He is a member of the Pilgrim (Uni-
tarian) Church of Attleboro, one of the stand-
ing committee and served on the committee in
charge of the erection of the church recently
built. He is a member of the following organ-
izations: Bristol Lodge, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons; King Hiram Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons; Attleboro Council, Royal and
Select Masters; Bristol Commandery, Knights
Templar (now holding the office of com-
mander) .
Mr. Barden married, at Attleboro, April 12,
1899, Louise, daughter of Dr. John R. and
Catherine F. (Wheelock) Bronson. Dr. Bronson
was distinguished as a physician and surgeon,
in general practice in Attleboro. During the
Civil war he served as surgeon and at one time
was in charge of the military hospital at
Fortress Monroe. [See Bronson and Pierce
genealogies.]
DeWITT CLINTON PACKARD, of Brock-
ton, is perhaps best known as the oldest town
clerk of Plymouth county in regard to length
of service. He has been city clerk of Brockton
throughout the period of its existence as a city,
and was serving as town clerk when the change
from town to city government took place. He
has held the office continuously since first
elected to it, at present (1911) rounding out
his thirtieth year in that incumbency.
Mr. Packard was born Sept. 22, 1834, in
the town of North Bridgewater (now Brock-
ton), Plymouth Co., Mass., and is a descend-
ant in the eighth generation from Samuel
Packard, the emigrant ancestor of a numerous
and respected family of this section. We give
an outline of the earlier generations herewith.
(I) Samuel Packard (name in early records,
both at Hingham and Bridgewater, Packer)
came from Windham, near Hingham, in Eng-
land, with wife and child in the ship "Dili-
gence," of Ipswich, in 1638, and settled at
Hingham. He was a proprietor in 1638. He
removed to West Bridgewater, where the first
settlements in the town were made. He was
constable in 1664, and licensed to keep an
ordinary, or tavern, 1670. From his will, pro-
bated March 3, 1684-85, it appears that the
Christian name of his wife was Elizabeth. His
children were: Elizabeth, Samuel, Zaccheus,
Thomas, John, Nathaniel, Mary, Hannah, Is-
rael, Jael, Deborah and Deliverance. Of the
daughters, Elizabeth married Thomas Alger,
of Easton; Mary married Richard Phillips, of
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Weymouth ; Hannah married Thomas Randall ;
Jael married John Smith; Deborah married
Samuel Washburn; Deliverance married
Thomas Washburn.
(II) Zaccheus Packard married Sarah,
daughter of John Howard, and their children
were: Israel, born in 1680; Sarah, born in
1682; Jonathan, born in 1684; David, born
in 1687; Solomon, born in 1689; James, born
in 1691; Zaccheus, born in 1693; John, born
in 1695; and Abiel, born in 1699. The father
died in 1723. The daughter Sarah married
in 1704 Capt. Josiah Edson.
(III) David Packard, son of Zaccheus, bprn
in 1687, married Hannah, daughter of John
Ames. He was among the first settlers in the
North parish, which later became North
Bridgewater, and subsequently changed to
Brockton. He lived on what in the early years
of the nineteenth century was the Capt. Robert
Packard place. His children were : David',
born in 1713; William, born in 1715; Han-
nah, born in 1718; Isaac, born in 1720; Mary,
born in 1722; Ebenezer, born in 1724; Abiah,
born in 1727; Mehetabel, born in 1730; and
Jane, born in 1734. The father died in 1755,
and the mother passed away in 1767. Of the
daughters, Hannah married in 1737 Samuel
Brett; Mary married in 1740 Daniel Richards;
Mehetabel married in 1748 Simeon Brett; and
Jane married in 1755 Matthew Kingman.
(IV) William Packard, son of David, born
in 1715, married in 1740 Sarah, daughter of
Benjamin Richards. Mr. Packard lived to be
ninety years of age, dying in 1805. His chil-
dren were: Amy, born in 1741; Hannah, born
in 1743; William, born in 1745; Lemuel, born
in 1747; Sarah, born in 1750; Silvanus, born
in 1752; Keziah, born in 1754; and Matilda.
Of the daughters, Amy married in 1764 Levi
French; Hannah married in 1765 Philip Rey-
nolds, and afterward in 1782 Enos Thayer;
Sarah married in 1769 Samuel Sturtevant ;
Keziah married a Pierce ; and Matilda married
in 1783 Capt. Zachariah Gurney.
(V) William Packard (2), son of William,
born in 1745, man-ied in 1769 Hannah, daugh-
ter of Nathaniel Reynolds, and their children
were: Sihon, born in 1770; Nancy, born in
1772; Eliphaz, and William. The mother of
these died, and the father married (second)
in 1784 Mary Wales, by whom he had chil-
dren : Ambrose, Cyrus, Charles, Hannah, Polly,
Matilda and Sarah. Of these Eliphaz removed
to Milton, and William went to Stoughton.
(VI) Sihon Packard, son of William (2),
born in 1770, married in 1794 Abigail Scott,
of Dedham. Their children were : Betsey, who
died unmarried; Joseph S. ; Oren; Sihon;
Isaac ; Washburn ; John ; Nathaniel R. ; David ;
and Mary, who died young. Of these Oren
married in 1821 Sally Skinner, of Mansfield;
Isaac married Laura, daughter of Daniel
Bryant, of East Bridgewater; and David lived
in Boston.
(VII) Washburn Packard, son of Sihon,
was born Dec. 26, 1805, and married Jan. 15,
1832, Hannah Packard, daughter of Samuel
Packard. They had two children, namely :
DeWitt Clinton, born Sept. 22, 1834; and
Julia Frances, who died Oct. 8, 1844. The
mother died Oct. 9, 1850, and on Jan. 3, 1852,
Mr. Packard married (second) Phebe Thomas
Sherman, daughter of Otis Sherman, of Roch-
ester, Mass. Mr. Packard was a shoe manu-
facturer and his factory was situated on Pond
street. He was well known and highly re-
spected in Brockton, where he died Feb. 14,
1881. His widow died Dec. 21, 1892.
(VIII) DeWitt Clinton Packard received
his early education in the common schools and
local academies, and studied out of school,
reading somewhat of the classics, Greek and
Roman, and taking French and German under
native teachers. For some time after leaving
school he worked with and assisted his father
in the latter's business of shoe manufacturing,
and then became a school teacher. About the
year 1859 he was chosen principal of the acad-
emy at Plympton, Mass., and served there two
years, resigning in 1861. He also taught in
common schools. In 1862 he reentered the
shoe business, in which he continued success-
fully for a number of years. In 1865, form-
ing a copartnership with Oliver F. Leach,
under the firm name of Leach & Packard, he
engaged in the manufacture of shoes for the
Southern and Western trade. This partner-
ship held until 1871, when it was dissolved,
and Mr. Packard continued alone, manufactur-
ing niainly for. the New England trade, until
1879. Then this business was gradually aban-
doned for the mortgage, brokerage and real
estate line, in which he was engaged until his
election as city clerk.
Mr. Packard has been 'prominent in town
and city afPairs for many years, and has held
numerous local positions. From 1877 to 1888
he was a trustee and a member of the board
for the management of the public library.
From 1879 to 1883 he was a member of the
school committee. In 1880 he was a member
of the committee of citizens chosen to prepare
and obtain a city charter, in 1881 was chosen
town clerk, and in 1882 elected city clerk,
which position he has held continuously to
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683
the present time; since 1875 he has held a
commission as justice of the peace ; in 1880
he was a United States census enumerator; in
1884 he was appointed by the governor a com-
missioner to qualify civil officers, and he has
been an examiner under the Massachusetts
civil service rules since their adoption.
Mr. Packard has for many years given prac-
tically all his time to lus duties as city clerk
of Brockton, where he has the confidence of all
classes, regardless of political color. With all
the work involved in the faithful discharge of
his responsibilities, he nevertheless finds time
to be genial, kindly and obliging, and he never
fails to give his services willingly wherever he
can be of any assistance, particularly in any
work connected with his branch of the muni-
cipal administration. All the records and
statistics of the city, the minutes of the board
of aldermen, and numerous other important
matters, are recorded and taken care of in his
office, and the fact that the records are in
most excellent shape shows that Mr. Packard
has kept pace with the increasing demands of
his work, which has not only grown in a ma-
terial way since he first took office, but which
has also widened in scope and importance to
an extent unlooked-for at that day. The sup-
port his fellow citizens gave him when they
held him over from the town to the city govern-
ment has been Justified by the high value of
his services. He has never allowed his work
to become a mere mechanical performance of
duty, but has shown himself progressive and
enterprising in his conception of its possibili-
ties and responsibilities, and his work has been
highly appreciated. To his "tireless energies
and safe and wise counsel," according to one
executive, the city owes much of her prog-
ress and integrity, a criticism which indicates
the personal interest Mr. Packard has taken
in the intelligent administration of his office,
which has been marked by courtesy, faithful-
ness and efficiency in every detail.
Mr. Packard has not been able to limit his
usefulness and knowledge of municipal affairs
strictly to his. own work, as during his many
years of service as city clerk he lias acquired
a fund of information regarding allied mat-
ters which makes him an authority consulted
by many who have become familiar with the
extent and variety of his knowledge. More-
over, his reputation has extended to other cities
of the Commonwealth. The clerks of the dif-
ferent cities meet for discussion of matters
pertaining to tlicir duties, and his word and
suggestions are treated with the most respect-
ful consideration in such gatherings. Many
citizens and even lawyers in Brockton ha.Ne
consulted him on important questions regard-
ing municipal affairs and certain legal prob-
lems, and the highest compliment that could
be paid to his acquisitions in this respect is
the standing of those who regard him as a
reliable authority. He has a record almost
unique.
While a young man, or rather in youth, Mr.
Packard had some connection with the news-
paper press, serving as a reporter on the North
Bridgewater Gazette, and also occasionally con-
tributing to the Boston Post, Traveller, Satur-
day Evening Gazette, New England Farmer,
and, later, the Rural New Yorker.
On Jan. 5, 1865, Mr. Packard was married
to Clarissa J. Leach, daughter of Oliver and
Susannah (Howland) Leach. Mrs. Packard
is a woman of intelligence and executive abil-
ity, and is her husband's able assistant in the
city clerk's office. They have had two chil-
dren, Clinton Francis and Clara Washburn.
(IX) Clinton Francis Packard, born Sept.
11, 1867, in Brockton, received his early edu-
cation in the public and high schools of his
native place, and finished his schooling at
Wilbraham Academy. He is serving as as-
sistant city clerk under his father. On Dec.
25, 1887, he married Annie J. Stewart, and
they have had one child, Blanche L., born Sept.
10," 1890.
(IX) Clara Washburn Packard, born March
12, 1872, was married to Frank N. Sherman,
who died March 7, 1897. She died May 33,
1903. They had three children, Marian Nel-
son, Mary Wilbur and Carlton Packard.
LUTHER (Fall River family). For three-
quarters of a century and more there has lived
in and been prominent in the commercial life
of Fall River the family of the late Samuel
Martin Luther, where father and .son, respec-
tively, have figured as contractor and builder
and manufacturer; the son being the present
Charles Bateman Luther, treasurer of the
Luther Manufacturing Company.
This Warren (R. I.) -Fall River Luther fam-
ily is a branch of the earlier Swansea family,
whose progenitor, Capt. John Luther, came to
the shores of New England some two hundred
and seventy-five years ago.
(I) The name of John Luther appears the
twenty-seventh on the list of the forty-six
ancient or original purchasers of Taunton,
1638. Nothing definite seems to have been set
forth by the writers of the early comers to
New England of Mr. Luther. A captain of a
vessel trading to Delaware, from Boston, of
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this name in 1644 was killed by the Indians first pastor as well as in his broadly catholic
in that river [see Winthrop II, 203, 237]. spirit. "The Congregational element found
The General Court decreed 22d of May, 1646, the ne\Y minister less ready to grant the same
that the widow Luther should have the balance liberal privileges as to church fellowship, in-
of her husband's wages according to sea cus- fant baptism, etc. The new version of Bap-
tom, after allowing to the merchants what tism and Christian Communion, as given by
they had paid for the redemption of her son. Elder Ijuther, was not acceptable to the Pedo-
On Oct. 19, 1672, Samuel Luther, son of John, baptists of the town, and, whether intended or
made a demand for his father's purchase rights not, helped to established the dividing line of
of the to\vn. In November following James denominationalism between the hitherto united
Walker made reply to this demand in sub- parties." These changes in the church
stance that he or his predecessors had enjoyed covenant with reference to baptism and com-
the rights for thirty years, had paid all charges, munion instituted by Elder Luther which de-
etc, and that Samuel Luther had no claim to stroyed the fellowship between Anabaptists and
it. From a branch of the Warren Peck-Luther Pedobaptists enjoyed by Mr. Myles and his
family comes the information that Capt. John associates, and made the church distinctly
Luther came to Boston in one of two Dutch Baptist, this change so distasteful to the Con-
vessels that arrived there in 1635 bringing a gregationalists, opened a religious controversy
number of Flemish mares, cattle and some which twenty-five years later split Swansea, on
passengers; that Mr. Luther was a native of sectarian lines, into two townships.
Germany and a direct descendant of the The children of Elder Samuel Luther and
mother of the great Martin Luther (she was his wife Mary were: Samuel, born Oct. 25,
formerly Margaret Lindeman, and married 1663; Theophilus, born Oct. 9, 1665; Mary,
John Luther, and the birthplace of Martin born July 80, 1668; Joshua, born Nov.. 25,
Luther was Eisleben, Saxony, 1483); that in 1670; Elizabeth, born Feb. 2, 1672; Experi-
1637 he became associated with Elizabeth's ence, born March 3, 1674; Mehetabel, bom
company in the purchase of Taunton; that in Aug. 26, 1676; Ebenezer, born Dec. 27, 1678;
1644 a charter was granted to certain mer- Martha, born Dee. 9, 1681; Susanna; Joanna,
chants of Boston authorizing them to trade (III) Samuel Luther (2), son of Elder
with a colony of Dutch and Swedes on Dela- Samuel, born Oct. 25, 1663, married Sarah
ware bay; that John Luther was sent as super- Chaffee. Mr. Luther went on the expedition
intendent of the ship and interpreter, while in 1690 against Quebec, under Phipps. The
William Aspinwall went to prosecute the trade ; children of Samuel and Sarah, all born in
that a few years after, 1658, he joined with Swansea, were: Samuel, born Nov. 20, 1689;
Thomas Willett and otliers in the purchase of Caleb, born in 1692 ; James, born March 8,
Attleboro, but he soon sold his interest to Bos- 1693 ; Benjamin ; Consider ; Elizabeth, born
ton parties, and in 1667 joined with Willett June 22, 1702; Eleflzer, born Feb. 28, 1704;
and others in the purchase of Swansea, where Jabez ; and Sarah, born Dec. 25, 1707.
he took up his permanent residencje. (IV) Caleb Luther, son of Samuel (2),
Mr. Luther is made the father of Samuel born in 1692, married Mary Cole, of Swan-
and Hezekiah Luther, of Swansea, Mass., who sea, and their children were: Freelove, born
according to the source mentioned above were Jan. 15, 1715; Susanna, born Aug. 20, 1717;
born, Samuel (in Yocumtown), in 1638, and Hannah, born Sept. 22, 1720; Caleb, t)Orn
Hezekiah, in 1640. April 22, 1723; Jabez, born July 8, 15;25;
(II) (Elder) Samuel Luther, son of Capt. Samuel, born in 1727; and Frederick, born
John, bom in 1638 in Yocumtown, married Feb. 15, 1730.
Mary. Captain Luther, as he was at one time (V) Frederick Luther, son of Caleb, bom
styled, was one of the most influential towns- Feb. 15, 1730, married Feb. 16, 175J, in
men of Swansea. He was deputy from Swan- Swansea, Joanna Luther, and their children,
sea to the General Court of Plymouth Colony the first five born in Swahsea, Mass., and the
in 1677, 1678 and 1679, and his brother others in Warren, R. 1., were: Freelove, born
Hezekiah was representative from Swansea to Sept. 26, 1752 ; Lydia, born July 31, 1754 ;
the Great and General Court of Massachu- Hannah, born Dec. 10, 1756; Saraji, born Dec.
setts Bay Colony in 1706. Rev. John Myles, 7, 1758; Martin, born April 19, 1761; Fred-
pastor of the Baptist Church in Swansea, died erick, born June 8, 1763 ; Rejiecca, born April
in February, 1683, and Elder Samuel Luther 17, 1765; and Samuel, bom April 11, 1768.
became his successor in 1685. Luther, it is The father was a farmfer and )ived and died
said, was wanting in the scholarship of the in Warren, R. I., reaching advanced age.
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685
(VI) Samuel Luther (3), son of Frederick,
born April H, 1768, in Warren, R. I., mar-
ried Abigail Beers, and located in the towTi of
Swansea, Mass., where he was occupied in
farming and as a carpenter. He died in Fall
River, Mass., in 1843, and his widow Abigail
passed away in 1858 or 1859. Their children
were : Rebecca married James Bowen ; Polly
married Willard Barney; Abbey married James
Richards; Daniel B- was a seafaring man;
Priscjlla married John Bushee; Samuel M.;
and Nancy married John Baker.
(VII) Samuel Jfartin Luther, son of Sam-
uel and Abigail (Beers) Luther, was bom
Nov. 15, 1806, in Swansea, Mass. He was
reared on his father's farm, having such school
privileges as it was in those days the custom
to give farmers' sons — attendance at the neigh-
borhood school in the winters — and working in
season on the farm. Quitting the farm before
he was of age, he went to Providence, R. I.,
where he commenced to 3earn the mason's
trade. But he was dissatisfied, and in 1836
went to Fall River, where he served an ap-
prenticeship of three years at the mason's
trade under Mr. John Phinney, one of the
contractors ^nd builders of that day in the
town. He continued to work for this employer
after the expiration of the term of his ap-
prenticeship as a journeyman workman until
the year 1831. In the last named year he be-
gan the business of contracting and building
on his own account, an occupation he con-
tinued in, and most successfully, throughout
the rest of his active business life. After be-
ginning for himself the first work of any con-
siderable size that he did was the building of
the substantial edifice of the Congregational
Church still standing on North Main street.
Fall River. And many are the substantial
buildings in and about Fall River of to-day
that stand as monuments to his skill and
workmanship. A practical mechanic himself,
he knew how a building should go up and
saw to it that it was constructed well.
Beginning life a poor boy, Mr. Luther
through his own efforts and force of character
rose to position and wealth. Besides looking
after the business in which he made his prin-
cipal reputation, he became interested in and
a director of a number of Fall River enter-
prises, among them the Rotieson Mills.
Mr. Luther was twice married, his first wife,
Abby M. BoswQrth, of liy^^ren, R. I., born
Feb. 21, 1809, 4yiDg May 11, 1854. He mar-
ried (second) Nov. 18, 1857, Harriet, born
July 8, 1817, in Newport, R. I., daughter of
William and Susanna (Spencer) Bateman.
Three of his four children were born to the
first marriage and died when young; the
fourth, born to the second marriage, is the
present Charles Bateman Luther, of Fall River.
Samuel Martin Luther died May 14, 1887.
Mrs. Luther died Feb. 21, 1892.
(VIII) Charles Bateman Lutheh, born
in Fall River Nov. 15, 1860, received his early
education there in the public schools. Gradu-
ating from the high school in 1879, he entered
Brown University, from which institution he
was graduated in 1883, with the degree of
Ph. B. He was a member of the D. K. E.
fraternity. Following his school life Mr.
Luther was in the employ of the Edison Elec-
tric Illuminating Company at Fall River un-
til September, 1887, after which he was out of
business for a number of years. He became
president of the Robeson Mills upon the death
of Lloyd S. Earle in August, 1895, and con-
tinued as such nntil 1903; he was treasurer
pro tem from March, 1898, to January, 1899.
In 1903 he started the Luther Manufacturing
Company, named for his father, and organized
for the purpose of purchasing the property of
the Robeson Mills and enlarging and develop-
ing same by the addition of new buildings and
machinery for the manufacture of a higher
grade of cloth. Mr. Luther organized this com-
pany and became treasurer thereof, which posi-
tion he has since held; Mr. Leontine Lincoln
is president of the company and Mr. John H.
Estes vice president. Under the financial guid-
ance of Mr. Luther the plant has been most
successful and its product has attained a high
reputation. In addition to his connection with
this concern he is interested in the Stafford
and Flint Mills, being president and a direc-
tor of the first named and a director of the
latter. He is vice president and director of
the new Charlton Mills. He is a man of
broad capabilities, as he has proved in the
management and wisely planned development
of his properties, and ranks well among mill
interests for the skill he has displayed in their
promotion and evolution.
Mr. Luther married Lottie H. Robinson,
daughter of John H. and Charlotte (Brownell)
Robinson, of Fall River. They have no chil-
dren. Mr. Luther is a member of the Que-
quechan Club of Fall River, Squantum Club of
Providence, Fall River Cotton Manufacturers'
Association and the Rhode Island Country
Club.
ELWIN T. WRIGHT, one of Rockland's
leading business men and well-known shoe
manufacturers, is the treasurer of the shoe
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manufacturing corporation of E. T. Wright &
Co. He was born in the town of Plympton,
Plymouth Co., Mass., Nov. 6, 1852, and is a
descendant of one of the oldest families of the
old Plymouth Colony.
(I) William Wright, the first of the name in
America, is supposed to have been the William
who was baptized at Austerfield, England, in
1588, and came in the ship "Fortune," in 1621,
with his wife Priscilla, who was the daughter
of Alexander Carpenter, and son Richard.
(II) Richard Wright, son of William, born
about 1607, died in Plymouth, Mass., June 9,
1691. In 1644 he married Hester Cook, and
they had children, Adam, Esther, Mary, Jolm
and Isaac.
(III) Adam Wright, son of Richard, born
about 1644, died Sept. 20, 1724. He was twice
married, marrying (first) Sarali Soule, daugh-
ter of Jolm Soule, of Duxbury, and grand-
daughter of George Soule, of the "Mayflower."'
They had two children, John and Isaac. He
married (second) Mehitable Barrows, and they
had children : Samuel ; Moses ; James ;
Nathan; Esther, who married Daniel Pratt;
Sarah, who married Seth Fuller; Mary, who
married Jeremiah Giflford ; and Rachel, who
married Ebenezer Barlow. Adam Wright was
one of the first settlers of the town of Plympton,
Massachusetts.
(IV) Moses Wright, son of Adam and Me-
hitable (Barrows) Wright, was born in
Plympton, Mass. He married Thankful Bowles,
of that town.
(V) Ebenezer Wright, son of Moses, born in
the town of Plympton, where he made his
home, was married to Deliverance Churchill,
of Plympton, where his death occurred.
(VI) Zebedee Wright, grandfather of Elvin
T. and son of Ebenezer, was born in the town
of Plympton in 1785. He was a farmer by
occupation and made his home in Plympton
during his active life. The last years of his
life were passed with his son Lorenzo, in East
Abington (now the town of Rockland), with
whom he died Dec. 7, 1865. Zebedee Wright
was married to Rhoda Ganmions, a native of
Middleboro, Mass., who died in Aiigust, 1850,
in Plympton, and they were both buried in
Plympton. The children born to this union
were: Annie, who married Elisha Vaughn, and
became the grandmother of ex-Gox. William
L. Douglas, of Brockton; Isaiah, who married
Elizabeth Brigdon, of Middleboro; Rufus, who
married Zerviah Ripley, of Plympton ; Rich-
ard, who married Azubah Tillson, of Middle-
boro; Peris, who died at sea; Adeline Crocker,
who married (first) Levi Churchill and (sec-
ond) Rufus Curtis; Rhoda, who married Chip-
man Ripley, and resided in Whitman, Mass. ;.
Ebenezer, who married Fannie Vickery ; Cyrus,
who married Sarah Cody; John Gammons, who
marrie'd Hulda Vickery, of Plympton; Row-
land Allen, who married Sarah P. Wright; Lo-
renzo, mentioned below; Rebecca Ganunons,
who married Nathaniel Billings, of Plympton;
Mary Jane, who died aged five years; and
Julia Keith, who died aged two years. Mr.
and Mrs. Wright were members of the Con-
,iegational Church.
(VII) Lorenzo Wright, son of Zebedee
Wright, was born July 27, 1825, on the home-
stead in the to\^^l of Plympton, and there at-
tended the district school. At an early age he
started to learn the boot and shoe trade and
while still in his teens went to Chelsea, Mass.,
where he found employment at his trade. Here
he continued for some time, where his mar-
riage occurred, and a year or so later returned
to his native town of Plympton and worked at
his trade for a short period. Later he moved
to South Braintree, Mass., and from there to
East Abingtim, now the town of Rockland,
where he engaged at the shoemaking trade
also. He was for a time engaged with his son
Elwin T., in the manufacturing of shoes, and
later worked for his son in the sole leather
department of his factory. In 1900 he retired
from active business and is now making his
home with his daughter, Mrs. John G. Owens,,
in Rockland, still active and in good physical
health. He is a stanch Democrat of the old
school, a member of the Union Glee Club of
Rockland, and is identified with the Unitarian
Church.
Lorenzo Wright was married in Chelsea,,
Mass., to Catharine O'Connell, who died in
Rockland April 18, 1888, and is buried in
Mount Pleasant cemetery. Their children were :
Loring L., who resides in Rockland ; Leman,
who died in infancy ; Elvrin T., mentioned be-
low; Emma W., who married Jeremiah Rior-
don, and has one child, Helen K. ; Esther Ann,
born Sept. 9, 1859, who died Oct. 1, 1859;
Juanita, who married George Harrington;
Julia Anna, born March 21, 1864, who mar-
ried John G. Owens, and resides in Rockland ;
and William Preston, bom Sept. 23, 1866, who-
resides in North Abington, Massachusetts.
(VIII) Elwin T. Wright was educated in
East Abington, now the to\vn of Rockland. In
early boyhood he learned the trade of his father,
and in 1876 he started in the shoe business
for himself. His first factory was a bam
where he and his father with the assistance-
of his wife began the manufacturing of shoes,.
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and this was the foundation of tlie wen-kno\vn
firm of E. T. Wright & Co. of to-day. Mr.
Wright and his father continued in business
for a short time, and in 1879 Mr. Wright took
into partnership liis father-in-law, Charles
Grose, of Scituate, they beginning the manu-
facture of shoes on the site of the present plant,
the firm being known as E. T. Wright & Co.
This partnersiiip continued until 1885, when
it was dissolved and Mr. Wright took in as
partner Charles Richards, the firm' then bec:om-
ing Wright & Richards, and this partnership
continued for eight years. In the year 1893
this partnership was dissolved, Mr. Wright con-
ducting it alone until 1896, when Alfred W.
Donovan was taken in as partner and the busi-
ness was carried on under the old firm name of
E. T. Wright & Co. In 1906 it was incor-
porated under the laws of the State of Massa-
chusetts with Alfred W. Donovan as president
and Elwin T. Wright as treasurer under the
name of E. T. Wright & Co., Inc. Many addi-
tions have been made to the factory from time
to time and it is one of the best equipped fac-
tory establishments in the Bay State, employing
about 650 hands, and manufacturing about
three thousand pairs of shoes per day, doing a
business of upward of two millions of dollars
per year. The product, knowTi as the "Just
Wright" shoe, is shipped to all parts of the
United States, Hawaiian Islands, Canada, and
other parts of the world. The concern has
offices at Boston, New York, Pittsburg, Phila-
delphia, San Francisco, Lynchburg (Va.) and
also in London, England.
Mr. Wright is a man of enterprise and pro-
gressive ideas. He is kind and generous and
takes a deep interest in the people who -are in
his employ. A thorough business man, thrifty
and mdustrious, he is an excellent citizen, and,
though not an office-seeker, is much interested
in the welfare of his community. He is a mem-
ber of the Commercial Club, of Rockland, hav-
ing been at one time its president; a member
of the New England Shoe & Leather Associa-
tion ; the Trade Club of Boston ; member of
Standish Lo<lge, I. 0. 0. F. ; past grand master
of the Lodge and member of Grand Lodge of
the State ; member of Abadour Lodge, A. F. &
A. M., of Boston ; Pilgrim Royal Arch Chapter,
and Old Colony Commandery; Knights Tem-
plar, of Abmgton ; the Massachusetts Consistory
(thirty-second degree, of Boston), and Aleppo
Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Bos-
ton. He is also member of the Union Glee
Club, of Rockland.
On Jan. 27, 1873, Mr. Wright married Mary
F., daughter of Charles and Mary A. Grose, of
Scituate, Mass. Mrs. Wright has proved her-
self a willing helpmate, having assisted her
husband in his early struggles, and much of his
successful life is due to her assistance and en-
couragement. Three children were bom to this
union: Charles Irving, born May 26, 1876, who
is a lawyer and resides in Pa^^adena, Cal., mar-
ried Edith McFadden, and has one child, Kath-
arine, born Jan. 28, 1907; Annie May, born
Nov. 28, 1879, married James Albert Monroe,
who is vice-president of E. T. Wright & Co.,
and they reside in Brookline, Mass.; Janet
Ansel, born May 2, 1891, married Louis F
Wright, of Brockton, Mass., and they have one
;>on, Louis Elwin Wright, born Sept. 17, 1910.
CUMMINGS (New Bedford family). The
name Cummings, variously spelled, is of com-
mon occurrence in Great Britain. It appears
early in France, often written Coymus. A
Robert Cumine was made Earl of Northumber-
land in the third year of William the Con-
queror. A William Cumin was Lord Chan-
cellor of Scotland in the time of King David,
1124. And many more influential houses in
the old country were of this name.
Perhaps some twenty years after the com-
ing to this country of the Pilgrim Fathers
there came hither one (I) Isaac Cumings, tlie
tradition being that he came either from Scot-
land or was of Scottish descent. He was of
Ipswich and made a freeman in 1642, and
later of Topsfield. From him has descended
a family now numerous both in New England
and throughout the country. Of his wife noth-
ing is known except that she preceded him in
death. He left four children : John, born, in
1630; Isaac, born in 1633; Elizabeth, and
Ann.
For generations the old town of Dartmouth,
this Commonwealth, has been the home of one
branch of the New England stock of Cum-
mingses, and New Bedford for half a cen-
tury has been the home of .what we might
have more properly in point of designation
called the Dartmouth-New Bedford family.
Among the representatives of the branch
just named was Benjamin Cummings, the
elder, several of whose sons, among them Wil-
liam, John and Benjamin, were merchants of
Dartmouth, conducting there an extensive
store and successful business. It was with the
family in particular of the youngest of these
three brothers — the late Benjamin Cummings,
Esq., of New Bedford — that this article is to
deal, Mr. Cummings himself becoming one of
the most active and extensive business men of
his adopted city. He left a son to perpetuate
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the family name, the late Charles S. Cum-
mings of tlie same city, who worthily wore it
and sustained the family reputation, now up-
held by his nephew and successor, Benjamin
Cumraings.
It may be of interest to state that among
some of the worthies of the New England
Cummingses, some who have achieved more
than an ordinary or local fame, are : Maria
Susanna Cummins, the author, a native of
Salem, Mass., one of whose works, "The Lamp-
lighter," published when she was twenty-seven,
was instantly popular, over forty thousand cop-
ies being sold within two months, and when
republished in England was received with even
greater approbation, the sale reacliing upward
of one hundred and twenty thousand copies.
.Of this book said a writer : "The work is one
of the noted successes in American fiction, be-
ing exceeded only by novels like 'Ben Hur'
and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' Had Miss Cum-
mins written nothing else she had earned the
title of fame." Revs. William and Moses Cum-
mings, father and son, were pious clergymen
of the Christian sect, the former being the
founder of his church in New England and the
latter the editor of the "Christian Herald and
Messenger" and the "Palladium." It was the
latter's son, the Hon. Amos Jay Cummings, a
gallant soldier of the Civil war, who later won
national reputation as a newspaper correspon-
dent, was president of the New York Press
Club, represented the Wall street Congressional
district in the Fiftieth United States Congress
and later succeeded the late Hon. S. S. Cox
in the Ninth New York district. And an-
other of the literary New England Cum-
mingses following the learned professions was
Eev. Joseph Cummings, D.D., LL.D., educator
and clergyman of the M. E. Church, and for
years president of the Wesleyan University and
subsequently of the Northwestern University
at Kvanston, Illinois.
(II) Deacon Isaac Cummings, son of Isaac
of Ipswich and Topsfield, born in 1633, mar-
ried Nov. 27, 1659. Mary, daughter of Robert
and Grace Andrews. He resided in Topsfield,
and was elected deacon of the church June 13,
1686. He was an influential man of the town,
and served as selectman, treasurer, constable
and tithingman. He was made a freeman in
1673, and in 1675 was impressed for the Nar-
ragansett expedition. He died in 1731. His
children were: Isaac, born Sept. 15, 1664;
John, June 7, 1666; Thomas, June 27, 1670;
Mary, Feb. 16, 167—; Rebecca. April 1, 1674;
Abigail ; and three sons that died in infancy.
(III) John Cummings, son of Deacon Isaac,
born in Topsfield June 7, 1666, was quite a
large landholder in his native town. He mar-
ried Jan. 23, 1688, Susannah, daughter of
Joseph and Phebe' (Perkins) Towne. She was
born Dec. 24, 1670, and died Sept. 13, 1766.
The children born of this union were : Joseph,
baptized Jan. 26, 1689-90 ; John, baptized
July 17, 1692; Isaac, born Dec. 25, 1695;
David, born April 15, 1698; Mai-y, born May
15, 1700; Susannah, born Jan. 3, 1701-02;
Stebbins, born Aug. 3, 1706; Samuel, born
Feb. 14, 1708-09; and Rebecca, baptized Nov.
1, 1713.
(IV) John Cummings, son of John, bap-
tized in Topsfield July 17, 1692, married (in-
tentions published) Feb. 18, 1715, Mary,
daughter of Isaac and Martha (Towne) Larra-
bee, of Lynn, Mass. He was a shoemaker by
trade. In 1727 he removed to Southboro,
Mass., where he bought a farm from John
Howe. In his will he mentions his son John
"if he shall ever return from His Majesty's
service." He died Feb. 29, 1756. His chil-
dren were: John, bom April 19, 1717; Han-
nah, Nov. 6, 1718; Mercy, Oct. 26, 1720; Ben-
jamin, Sept. 12, 1723 (died Nov. 27, 1731);
Reuben, Jan. 29, 1726; Sarah. May 30, 1729;
Benjamin, Oct. 7, 1731 ; and Joseph, Feb. 5,
173.3.
(V) Joseph Cummings, son of John, born
Feb. 5, 1733, in Middletown, married Sept. 11,
1753, Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Allard,
of Framinghara, and lived in Southboro, Mass.
In 1767 he made an exchange with David
Goddard, giving his farm in Southboro for a
farm in Athol. He served as corporal in Captain
Dexter's company at Lexington ; he was also
at Bunker Hill, and in 1777 marched against
the forces of Burgoyne. He was elected to
office in his town, which he served many years.
He died Feb. 25, 1818, in Phillipston, Mass.
His children were : Joseph, born in Southboro,
Oct. 13, 1754, a Revolutionary soldier; Eliza-
beth, born in Southboro Feb. 8, 1757; John,
born in Southboro Aug. 13, 1759, a Revolu-
tionary soldier; Benjamin, bom in Southboro
Feb. 8, 1764; Stephen, born in Southboro May
8, 1766; Daniel, born in Athol May' 20, 1768,
who died young; Nathan, horn in Athol April
8, 1771; Samuel, born in Athol Feb. 2, 1773;
Susy, born in Athol Jan. 7, 1778; and Daniel,
born in Athol Jan. 27, 1781.
(VI) Benjamin Cummings, son of Joseph,
born in Southboro Feb. 8, 1764, married Jan.
10, 1780, Mehitable Rider. He was a sea cap-
tain and was known as Capt. Benjamin. His
children were: Rebecka, born Oct. 22, 1781,
who married Joseph Smith and moved to
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689
White Creek, N. Y.; William, born Dec. 21,
1783, who died unmarried; Rutli, born Nov.
4, 1785; Elizabeth, born Mav 20, 1788, who
died Feb. 15, 1812; Nancy^ born May 23,
1790, who married Charles Smith; Mehitable,
born Nov. 30, 1792, who died unmarried; John,
born Feb. 13, 1795, who married Elizabeth
Olds; Benjamin, born April 7, 1797; and
Sally, born June 5, 1799.
(VII) Benjamin Cdaimings, son of Ben-
jamin, born April 7, 1797, in the town of
Dartmouth, Mass., was in his early years un-
til soon after his marriage associated with his
•older brothers, William and John Cummings,
in the conduct of an extensive store in Dart-
mouth, doing a successful business. Soon after
his marriage he left the store and devoted his
attention to his farm and the many business
interests connected with it. There was upon
it a valuable water power which was used for
a sawmill, grist mill and fulling mill, all of
■which called for his attention, and all of which
lie successfully managed. At that time the
whaling business flourished greatly, and it
naturally attracted him, and he soon began to
invest in whaling vessels. He found interest
and profit in this and increased his investments
until he was part owner in a large number of
whalers, one of which was named for him, and
bore as a figureliead a full-length likeness of
him carved in wood, which was thought singu-
larly true to life. He also invested largely in
Teal estate in New Bedford, and the accuracy
of his judgment has been indicated' in the
■development of the city.
In 1857 he erected the Cummings building
■on the corner of Williams and Purchase streets,
in which enterprise his brother William joined.
At that time the building was the largest and
finest in the city, and the wisdom of it from
a financial standpoint was doubted by many,
but the result proved his judgment correct,
and his building did much to fix the business
■center of the city. He had moved from Dart-
mouth to New i3edford in 1855, to the house
at No. 411 County street where he died seven
years later, and in which his widow resided un-
til her death, in 1902.
The life of Benjamin Cummings was one
■of intense attention to business up to the time
of his death. He was much interested in
Antioeh College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, and
found time in his busy life to serve it as a
trustee. He liked trees and flowers and all
outdoor things and took great pleasure and
pride in his garden.
On Jan. 27, 1820, when twenty-two years
«lil. Mr. Cummings married Cynthia Smith,
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born Jan. 9, 1802, daughter of Henry and
Mary (Almy) Smith, who owned a large tract
of land in Dartmouth, on the Paskamansett
river, which is still kept in the family. Ten
children blessed this marriage, namely: Caro-
line Almy, born Sept. 23, 1821, married Abner
R. Tucker, and died March 5, 1904; Mary
Ann, born Jan. 6, 1823, married Charles Almy,
whom she survived, and lived in Buffalo, where
she died Dec. 18, 1910 (she was laid to rest
in Oak Grove cemetery, at New Bedford) ;
William Henry, born Dec. 21, 1824, died Dec.
27, 1874; Emily Mandeville, born June 25,
1827, married Benjamin Rathbone Almy;
Charles Smith was born Feb. 4, 1830; Sarah,
bom Oct. 8, 1832, died Sept. 29, 1847; John
Tillinghast, born April 23, 1835, died April
7, 1837; Louise Smith was born in Dartmouth
Sept. 18, 1838; Julia Holmes, born May 20,
1842, died May 26, 1843; and Julia Holmes
(2), born Feb. 20, 1844, died Aug. 20, 1856.
The old age to which Mr. Cummings had
looked forward as a time when he could en-
joy the property he had accumulated, to which
he had looked as a means rather than an end,
was denied him, and lie died, leaving the repu-
tation of an honorable and upright man in
whom his family could feel just pride, Sept.
28, 1863, in New Bedford. Mrs. Cummings
died March 4, 1902, just about two months
after her one hundredth birthday.
(VIII) William Henry Cummings, son of
Benjamin, born Dec. 21, 1824, in Dartmouth,
married (first) June 5, 1849, Hannah W.
Smith, who bore him three children, namely:
Benjamin, born Dec. 24, 1852 ; William, Aug.
11, 1856; and Florence Evelyn, Aug. 3, 1859.
Mr. Cummings married (second) March 15,
1864, Lucy B. Gifford, and to this marriage
were born two children : Charles Smith, Dec.
9, 1867; and Mabel L., Jan. 6, 1870. Mr.
Cummings spent his younger days in Dart-
mouth, where he was educated. In his earlier
years he followed whaling for a short time, go-
ing on two or three voyages. In 1849 he went
to California with the gold seekers, and re-
mained about a year. Upon his return he
lived in Westport for about four years, and
in 1855 located at Russell's Mills in Dart-
mouth. Here he engaged in farming, an oc-
cupation he followed until his death, which oc-
curred Dec. 27, 1874.
(IX) BENjAMfN Cummings, son of William
H., was born Dec. 24, 1852, in that part of
Westport which is known as "Head of West-
port." He was given his primary or elemen-
tary education at Russell's Mills, whither his
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parents had removed in 1855. He attended
school there until he was about twelve years
of age, when he was sent to the Friends' board-
ing school in Providence, where he studied two
years. He left this school in June, 1867, and
on Aug. 19th of the same year became a clerk
in the store of his uncles. Tucker & Cum-
mings, and continued in that capacity until the
retirement of Abner R. Tucker, the senior
member, in 1881, when he became the junior
member of the firm. This business was estab-
lished in 1853, as Tucker & Cummings (Abner
R. Tucker and Charles S. Cummings), and
was confined to one store from 1853 to 1873,
when another store was added, and two stores
were operated until 1881, when the third store
was opened, and the firm name became C. S.
& B. Cummings. As such it continued until
the death of the senior member in 1906, when
the firm name was changed to Cummings &
Cummings, Frank A. Cummings, son of
Charles S., becoming the junior member of the
firm, and at the same time a fourth store was
added. The members of this firm of importers
and grocers for fifty-five years have numbered
among their patrons the best and most exclu-
sive New Bedford families. From the time of
his entrance into this firm as a boy in 1867,
for a period of twenty-nine years, Benjamin
Cummings opened the store daily at 5 :30 a. m.
in the summer and 6 :00 a. m. in the winter,
and without disparagement to any one else it
may be said that he largely assumed the man-
agement of the business years before he be-
came a member of the firm, in 1881. From
the time he became identified with the firm
in 1867 the business has increased tenfold.
Inheriting from his parents a rugged constitu-
tion, and possessing great energy and keen
aptitude for business, Mr. Cummings has made
himself one of the most representative and
successful business men and merchants. He is
a member of the Board of Trade. In his politi-
cal views he is a Republican, and a firm be-
liever in the merits of a protective tariff for
American industries. He is a member of the
Republican Home Market Club, but otherwise
is not active in party work. He is a trustee
of the Institution for Savings. Socially he is
an original member of the Dartmouth Club,
and a member of the Wamsutta, Country and
Yacht Clubs.
On Feb. 7, 1893, Mr. Cummings was mar-
ried to Mary Elizabeth Smiih, of New Bed-
ford. They have no children.
(VIII) Ch.\rles Smith Cummixcss, son of
Benjamin and Cynthia (Smith) Cummings,
born Feb. 4, 1830, died in New Bedford Aug.
26, 1906. He received his education in the
schools of his native town, the Friends' Acad-
emy at New Bedford and Phillips Academy at
Andover. In 1849 he went to California, and
for the next four years was engaged in min-
ing. He returned and established a store at
South Dartmouth. For fifty-three years Mr.
Cummings had devoted his time and attention
to the grocery business, which began in a
small store at Padanaram in 1853, and at the
time of his death comprised several stores in
the Cummings building on Williams street.
The business was established under the firm
name of Tucker & Cummings, the partners be-
ing Abner R. Tucker and Charles S. Cum-
mings. The store in South Dartmouth was
on the road leading to the bridge, and in it
were kept for sale all sorts of goods, from
hardware to groceries, from crockery to ship
supplies. Besides their general store business
Tucker & Cummings fitted nine whaling ves-
sels and built four more, the "H. H. Crapo,"
the "A. R. Tucker," the "Eliot C. Cowdin"
and the "Benjamin Cummings." The panic
of 1857 resulted in the dropping of the whal-
ing end of the business, and in 1860 the firm
moved to New Bedford. For a year Tucker
& Cummings occupied a store at the corner of
Front and Union streets, where they carried
on a wholesale and retail business. In 1861
the firm opened the Williams street stores,
which were extended from time to time to
meet the requirements of the increase in busi-
ness. In 1881 Mr." Tucker withdrew and Ben-
jamin Cummings, a nephew, became the jun-
ior member of the firm. During the war Mr.
Cummings was a member of the 3d Massachu-
setts Cavalry, in wliich he attained the rank
of second lieutenant. He was a member of
Acushnet Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of the
New Bedford Protecting Society. In politics
he was a Repul)lican.
On Nov. 27, 1855, Mr. Cummings was mar-
ried to A. Emma Brownell, daughter of Jo-
seph BrowncU. Their children were: (1) Ida
F., born Oct. 29, 1858, married Charles D.
Prescott, M. D. (2) Emily Ahny, born Jan.
16, 1861, married June I'l, 1891, Eliot D.
Stetson, and has children, Lydia Almy (born
April 5, 1892), Emily Cummings (March 2,
1893), Ellen AVinslow "(May 18, 1895), Frances
Eliot (born June 23, 1897), Thomas Meriam
(horn Oct. 27. 1899), and Eliot Dawes, Jr.,
(Oct. 5, 1903). (3) Frank Augustus, bom
Oct. 15, 1869, married Sept. 15, 1903, Roxy
H. Greene, and his children are Rosalind, born
July 15, 1904, and Prescott Brownell, born
July 6, 1908.
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ALMY. (I) William Alniy, born in Eng-
land in 1601, came to America with Governor
Winthrop. He was made a freeman in 1635,
was commissioner in 1656-57-63. His wife
Audry was born in 1603, and both died in
1676.
(II) Christopher Almy, son of William and
Audry, born in 1633, married July 9, 1661,
Elizabeth Cornell, daughter of Thomas, born
in Hertford, England. He was of Portsmouth,
R. I., and died there Jan. 30, 1713, and she
died after 1708.
(III) William Almy, son of Christopher and
Elizabeth, born Oct. 27. 1665, was of Tiverton,
R. I., where he married Deborah Cook, of
Portsmouth, R. I., born Feb. 15, 1669. He
died July 6, 1747.
(IV) Job Almy, son of William and
Deborah, born April 28, 1696. was of East
Greenwich, R. I. In Tiverton he married
July 18, 1717, Lydia Tillinghast, of East
Greenwich, born July 8, 1700. He died at
Tiverton July 18, 1777.
(V) Job Almv, son of Job and Lydia, born
in Dartmouth Oct. 16, 1730, died Jan. 4,
1816. On April 27, 1750, he married in Dart-
mouth Anne Slocum, born in Dartmouth
March 6, 1732, died Sept. 17, 1793.
(VI) Tillinghast Almy, son of Job arid
Anne, born March 16, 1754, died Sept. 22,
1830. He was of Dartmouth. He married
about 1777 Hannah Chase, of Portsmouth,
R. I., born March ]5, 1750, died Jan. 6, 1840.
(VII) Mary Almy, daughter of Tillinghast
and Hannah, born in Dartmouth May 23, 1780,
died March 26, 1829, married Oct. 2, 1800,
Henry Smith, born July 16, 1777, died July
16, 1813.
(VIII) Cynthia Smith, daughter of Mary
(Almy) and Henry Smith, born Jan. 9, 1802,
in Dartmouth, married Jan. 27, 1820, Ben-
jamin Cummings, born April 7, 1797, died
Sept. 28, 1863.
(IX) Emily Mandeville (Cummings) Almy,
daughter of Benjamin and Cynthia (Smith)
Cummings, born June 25, 1827, in Dartmouth,
married there Nov. 15, 1849, Benjamin Rath-
bone Almy, born in Tiverton, R. I., Feb. 22,
1810, died in New Bedford Jan. 29, 1861.
He was a son of William Almy, of Portsmouth,
R. I., and Rhoda his wife, and grandson of
Tillinghast and Hannah (Chnse) Almy, above
mentioned. To Benjamin R. and Emily M.
(Cummings) Almy were born children as fol-
lows: Walter, born in Providence Dec. 29,
1850, died Aug. 13, 1906; Clarence, born in
Barrington, R. I., Aug. 15, 1852, married Anna
Kirtley Bowen, and died July 6, 1883; Emma
Cummings, born in New Bedford July 4, 1854,
died there July 12, 1855; Harry Atherton,
born in New Bedford Aug. 8, 1857, died Sept.
2, 1860; and Ernest, bom in New Bedford
June 20, 1859, died July 4, 1859.
BROWNELL. While the Brownell family
strictly speaking is a Rhode Island one, yet
through that part of Massachusetts lying adja-
cent thereto branches of the family early found
homes and the name has since been a com-
mon one there and the family numerous.
(I) Thomas Brownell, the progenitor of the
Rhode Island family, was born in 1619. He
appeared at Portsmouth in 1647, when at the
formation of the government under the char-
ter of 1643, with John Cook, he was chosen
water "bailie" for the Colony, having charge
of the fisheries, then, as now, an important
industry and a source of wealth. Mr. Brown-
ell was a freeman in 1655. He was also com-
missioner in that same year, and again in
1661, 1662 and 1663, and deputy in 1664.
The Christian name of his wife was Ann. Mr.
Brownell died in 1665, and Mrs. Brownell in
that same year. Their children, were: Mary,
Sarah, Martha, George, William, Thomas,
Robert and Anna. Of these,
(II) George Brownell, born in 1646,
married in 1673 Susanna, born in 1652, daugh-
ter of Richard and Susanna (Wright) Pearce.
He lived in Portsmouth, R. I., and was a
prominent public man. He represented his
town as deputy to the General Court, in 1699
and 1702; and was assistant in 1706-07-08-09-
10-11. He died in 1718, and his wife in 1743.
Their children were: Susanna, Sarah, Mary,
Martha, Thomas, Joseph, Wait and Stephen.
(III) Joseph Brownell, son of George, of
Portsmouth, R. I., was born Dec. 5, 1680.
He, married Jan. 5, 1716-17, Ruth Cor-
nell, born Dec. 12, 1697, daughter of
George Cornell, and their children were:
George, born June 23, 1718 ; Joseph, April
26, 1720; Thomas. Oct. 23, 1722-; Wait,
Feb. 6, 1724-25; Philadelphia, Dec. 15, 1726;
Martha, March 17, 1728-29; and George, Sept.
27, 1736.
(IV) Joseph Brownell (2), son of Joseph
and Ruth, born April 26, 1720, married Dec.
22, 1742, Rebecca Tripp, born Aug. 28, 1722,
daughter of Abicl and Eleanor (Wait) Tripp.
Their "children were: Stephen, born Feb. 12,
1744; Jonathan, May 30, 1746; Nathan, Feb.